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Dix-neuvième siècle --- Nineteenth century.

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"This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siecle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siecle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the 'New Liberalism', and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siecle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siecle period"--

Nineteenth century. --- Civilization, Modern --- History, Modern --- World history --- Nineteenth century --- 19th century --- Belle Epoque --- fin-de-siecle --- Michael Saler --- world history

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Typographie --- Caractères d'imprimerie --- Printing. --- Type and type-founding. --- Nineteenth century.

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The British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for working in parallel with Darwin on evolution and natural selection. A social reformer and a prolific writer, he criticised the social and economic system in nineteenth-century Britain, and raised concerns over the environmental impact of human activity. First published in 1898, this book looks back over the history of the nineteenth century, and describes its material and intellectual achievements with the aim 'to show how fundamental is the change they have effected in our life and civilization'. The book surveys technological inventions such as the railway, the telegraph and telephone, as well as photography. But it also analyses the century's 'failures', and discusses the issues of poverty, greed and militarism.

Civilization, Modern --- Technology --- History --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- Social conditions --- Nineteenth century

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On ignore encore souvent que George Sand a été une journaliste prolixe tout au long de sa vie. Polygraphe, elle ne s’est pas cantonnée à une forme ou une rubrique mais elle a utilisé toute la palette du journaliste et du reviewer : elle a pratiqué la critique dramatique, la critique littéraire, la critique picturale, les grands articles politiques, le récit de voyage, les études de mœurs, les nécrologies, le billet d’humeur, le droit de réponse. Elle a fréquenté tous les types possibles de journaux : quotidiens, grandes revues, magazines, illustrés, petits journaux littéraires... Elle-même ne considérait pas cette production comme mineure dans l’ensemble de son œuvre puisque régulièrement elle s’est évertuée à faire publier en recueils ses articles. Cet ouvrage se propose d’étudier les relations de George Sand avec la presse notamment dans l’édification d’une pensée du média, ce qu’elle-même appelait « la science du journalisme », avec ses crises et ses aléas. Mais ce volume montre aussi que si George Sand est réceptive aux mutations d’une écriture journalistique en plein bouleversement, elle fait aussi du journal très explicitement son propre œuvre en détournant tous les codes attendus pour produire des textes hors norme. Cette expérience de la presse irrigue le reste de son œuvre, du roman-feuilleton à l’œuvre autobiographique en passant par le théâtre.

Literature (General) --- presse --- Sand --- littérature --- littérature XIXe siècle --- journalisme --- french literature --- nineteenth century --- press --- journalism