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The fin-de-siècle world

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Routledge

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2015.

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English

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Introduction / Michael Saler

PART I. OVERVIEWS. Global literatures of decadence / Regenia Gagnier

The city and urban life / Peter Fritzsche

The second industrial revolution / Andreas Killen

The modernity of the fin de siècle / John Jervis

Changing concepts and experiences of time and space / Stephen Kern

PART II. PLACES. France / Mark S. Micale

Britain / Nicholas Daly

Central Europe / Suzanne Marchand

Russia / Olga Matich

Italy / Walter Adamson

Spain / Lara Anderson

The United States / Richard Cándida Smith

Canada / D.M.R. Bentley

Latin America / Adela Pineda Franco

Did China have a fin de siècle? / Maura Dykstra and Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Japan / Selçuk Esenbel

The Middle East / Jens Hanssen

India / Ruth Vanita

Africa / Rebecca Saunders

PART III. POLITICS IN A NEW KEY. The new nationalism / Timothy Baycroft

The new imperialism / Sascha Auerbach

The new politics of "higher individualism" / Chris Nottingham

PART IV. MASS CULTURE. Publishing / Christopher Hilliard

Transports of speed / Andrew Denning

Consumer culture and advertising / H. Hazel Hahn

PART V. DISCIPLINES. The universities and the human sciences / Peter Mandler

Philosophy / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

The "new physics" / Helge Kragh

Biology and eugenics / Marius Turda

Psychology and psychiatry / Eric Shiraev

Medicine / Andrew Smith

PART VI. SELFHOOD. Gender and sexuality / Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn

Race and ethnicity / Laura Tabili

PART VII. RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY. Secularism/atheism/agnosticism / Vincent P. Pecora

The Jewish fin de siècle / Olga Litvak

Christianity / Vincent Lloyd

Islam / Mawra Elshakry

2444 A.N. : Buddhism / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

New Age fin de siècle / Gary Lachman

PART VIII. AESTHETICS. Music and the Gesamtkunstwerk / Mark Berry

The visual arts / Michelle Facos

The cinema / Tom Gunning

Scientific romance, fantasy, and the supernatural / Roger Luckhurst

Children's literature / Seth Lerer

Realism / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.

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Subjects

Civilisation
Civilisation -- 19e siècle
Civilization, Modern
Civilization, Modern -- 19th century
Dix-neuvième siècle
Electronic books
Fin de siècle
Gesellschaft
Guides et manuels
handbooks
Handbooks and manuals
Histoire
Histoire -- 19e siècle
HISTORY
History, Modern
History, Modern -- 19th century
HISTORY -- World
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
HISTORY / World
Kultur
Nineteenth century
World

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Saler, Michael T.,1960- editor of compilation, editor

ISBN

9780415674133
9781317604815
9781322327853
9781317604792
9781317604808
9781138616448
9781315748115

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