Individualism, decadence and globalization : on the relationship of part to whole, 1859-1920
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Individualism, decadence and globalization : on the relationship of part to whole, 1859-1920
（Language, discourse, society）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Notes and references: p. 176-204
Includes index
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Description
Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: Individuals-in-Relation The Ironies of Western Individualism New Women, Female Aesthetes and Socialist Individualists: The Literature of Separateness and Solubility Decadent Interiority and the Will The Unclassed and the Non-Christian Roots of Philanthropy Good Europeans and Neo-Liberal Cosmopolitans: Ethics and Politics in Late Victorian Cosmopolitanism and Beyond Appendix: Interiority, Exteriority, and Mystical Substitution: The Case of J.K. Huysmans Notes Index
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