The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

by Gail Marshall

Book Overview

Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de si cle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521615615
• ISBN13: 9780521615617
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"