Literature and culture at the fin de siècle
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Literature and culture at the fin de siècle
Pearson/Longman, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 602-606) and index
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Description
This unprecedented comprehensive anthology of short canonical readings on important topics in fin-de-siecle literature offers the most prominent examples of poetry, fiction, prose, and drama for thorough in-depth study. This anticipated collection features non-canonical stories, poems, and articles alongside well-known works by fin-de-siecle authors. By bringing to the forefront the definition and the significance of the fin-de-siecle movement, this anthology involves the reader in a continual scholarly endeavor. Organized into two thematic units, "Aestheticism" and "The New Women," this text includes a range of authors: from Wilde and Kipling to Housman and Pater. Annotations and unit introductions supply brief, informative explanations to aid comprehension.
Table of Contents
Contents are Alphabetical by Author and Title
Table of Dates
Preface
Introduction
I. AESTHETICISM
The Art of Living: Introduction to Aestheticism
Arguing for Art: Aesthetic Prose
Walter Pater
from Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)
James McNeil Whistler
from "Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock" (1888)
Oscar Wilde
"The Decay of Lying" (1888)
Oscar Wilde
"Preface" to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Vernon Lee
from Baldwin (1886)
Alice Meynell
"The Colour of Life" (1896)
Max Beerbohm
"A Defence of Cosmetics" and "A Letter to the Editor" (1894)
Arthur Symons
"The Decadent Movement in Literature" (1893)
Incantatory Art: Aesthetic Poems
Ernest Dowson
"Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae" (1891)
Lionel Johnson
"The Destroyer of a Soul" (1892)
"A Decadent's Lyric" (1897)
Arthur Symons
"Renee" (1895)
"White Heliotrope" (1895)
"Morbidezza" (1892)
"Maquillage" (1892)
Lord Alfred Douglas
"Two Loves" (1894)
W. B. Yeats
"To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time" (1893)
"When You are Old" (1893)
"To Ireland in the Coming Times" (1893)
"The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart" (1899)
"He Remembers Forgotten Beauty" (1899)
"The Secret Rose" (1899)
"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" (1899)
Oscar Wilde
"The Sphinx" (1894)
"The Harlot's House" (1885, 1908)
"Impression du Matin" (1877, 1881)
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898)
Michael Field
"Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place" (1889)
"I Love You With My Life" (1908)
"The Mummy Invokes his Soul" (1908)
"Unbosoming" (1893)
"La Gioconda" (1892)
"A Pen-Drawing of Leda" (1892)
Amy Levy
"To Vernon Lee" (1889)
"Xantippe" (1881) 1
Alice Meynell
"Renouncement (1882) 1
"Cradle-Song at Twilight" (1895) 1
"Why Wilt Thou Chide" (1896) 1
"Maternity" (1913) 1
"Easter Night" (1915) 1
Graham R. Tomson
"Aubade" (1891)
"Ballad of the Bird-Bride" (1889)
Olive Custance
"Doubts" (1897) 1
"The White Witch" (1902) 1
The Art of Conversation: Aesthetic Fiction and Drama 1
W. S. Gilbert
"If You're Anxious for to Shine" (1881) 1
Max Beerbohm
"Enoch Soames" (1914) 1
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (1894, performed 1895, 1899) 1
Una Ashworth Taylor
"Seed of the Sun" (1896)
"The Truce of God" (1896)
II. NEW WOMEN
The New Women: Introduction
The New Woman in the Popular Press
Sarah Grand
"The New Aspect of the Woman Question" (1894)
Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee)
"The New Woman" (1894)
B. A. Crackanthorpe
"The Revolt of the Daughters" (1894)
Kathleen Cuffe
"A Reply from the Daughters" (1894) 2
A. G. P. Sykes
"The Evolution of the Sex" (1895)
Mona Caird
"Does Marriage Hinder a Woman's Self-Development?" (1899) 2
Alice Meynell
"A Woman in Grey" (1896) 2
New Women Poetry 2
May Kendall
"Woman's Future" (1887)
Constance Naden
"The New Orthodoxy" (1887)
Dora Sigerson Shorter
"Cecilia's Way" (1903)
E. Nesbit
"Accession" (1905) 2
Dollie Radford
"From Our Emancipated Aunt in Town" (1895) 2
Amy Levy
"Captivity" (1889) 2
Graham R. Tomson
"On the Road" (1889) 2
Matilde Blind
"Prelude: Wings" (1889)
New Women Fiction
George Egerton
"A Cross Line" (1893)
Ella D'Arcy
"The Pleasure-Pilgrim" (1895)
Mabel E. Wotton
"The Fifth Edition" (1896)
III. MIND AND BODY
Introduction
Body Fears: Degeneracy and Sexology
Francis Galton
from Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (1883)
Max Nordau
from Degeneration (1895)
Janet E. Hogarth
from "Literary Degenerates" (1895)
George Bernard Shaw
from The Sanity of Art (1895, 1908)
Havelock Ellis
from Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1901)
Edward Carpenter
from Homogenic Love (1894)
Political Solutions: Philanthropy, Sociology, Socialism
William Morris
"Useful Work versus Useless Toil" (1884)
Oscar Wilde
from "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)
George Bernard Shaw
from "The Basis of Socialism" (1889)
Charles Booth
from Life and Labour of the People in London (1889)
W. T. Stead
from "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" (1885)
Writing the City, Writing the Country
John Davidson
"Good-Friday" (1893)
Arthur Symons
"In Bohemia" (1896)
"Prologue: In the Stalls" (18--)
"To a Dancer" (18--)
"Prologue: Before the Curtain" (18--)
A. E. Housman
"Loveliest of Trees" (18--)
"When I Was One-and-Twenty" (18--)
"To an Athlete Dying Young" (18--)
"On Wenlock Edge" (1896)
Thomas Hardy
"Wessex Heights" (1898)
"The Darkling Thrush" (1898)
Music Hall Songs: Gus Elen
"If it Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between" (1899)
Mental Hopes: Psychology, Parapsychology, Fantasy
William James
from Principles of Psychology (1890)
Sigmund Freud
from "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" ("Dora") (1905)
Frederic W. H. Myers
from Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (1903)
Henry James
"The Beast in the Jungle" (1893)
IV. ENGLAND AND ITS OTHERS
Introduction
Writing Empire
James Anthony Froude
from The English in the West Indies (1888)
J. J. Thomas
from Froudacity (1889)
Henry Newbolt
"Vitai Lampada" (1897)
Rudyard Kipling
"The White Man's Burden" (1899)
Henry Labouchere
"The Brown Man's Burden" (1899)
The Scramble for Africa
Mary Kingsley
from Travels in West Africa (1897)
David Lloyd George
"South African War-Mortality in Camps of Detention" (1901)
The Eastern Empire: India
Rudyard Kipling
"Gunga Din" (1899)
Rudyard Kipling
"Without Benefit of Clergy" (1891)
Alice Perrin
"Mary Jones" (1912)
Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892)
Laurence Hope
"Kashmiri Song" (1901)
Toru Dutt
"Jogadby Uma" (1882)
Celts and Colonialism: Ireland
W. B. Yeats
from "The Celtic Twilight" (1893)
Katherine Tynan
"The Children of Lir" (1891)
J. M. Synge
Riders to the Sea (1904)
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