TY - BOOK ID - 9321 TI - Cultural politics at the fin de siècle AU - Ledger, Sally AU - McCracken, Scott PY - 1995 SN - 0521484995 0521443857 0511553706 0511883323 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - English literature KW - Literature and society KW - Psychoanalysis and literature. KW - Social problems in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Social problems in literature KW - Literature and psychoanalysis KW - Psychoanalytic literary criticism KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Great Britain KW - Civilization KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9321 AB - Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion of the 'New Woman', the reconstruction of masculinities, and of feminism and empire. The imperialist theme is pursued in essays on Yeats and Ireland, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the figure of the vampire. The rise of socialism and psychoanalysis, and the relationship between nascent modernism and late twentieth-century postmodernism are also addressed in this radical account. ER -