TY - BOOK ID - 110869797 TI - The Cambridge companion to the fin de siècle PY - 2007 SN - 9780521615617 9781139001564 9780521850636 PB - Cambridge New York Melbourne [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Littérature occidentale KW - Décadentisme. KW - Art et littérature. KW - English literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - Decadence (Literary movement) KW - Art and literature. KW - Histoire et critique. KW - History and criticism. KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Great Britain KW - Europe KW - Civilisation KW - Civilization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:110869797 AB - Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle 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, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Olive Schreiner were among the most prominent, occasionally even notorious, writers and artists of the period, challenging establishment values and producing a distinctive literature of their own. This volume includes the main currents of radical and innovative thinking in the period, as well as the attempts to resist them. It will be of great interest to students of Victorian and twentieth-century literature, art and cultural history. ER -