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En Europe, la fin du XIXe siècle s'accompagne d'une hantise du déclin, qui s’est exprimée en termes de dégénérescence. Dans des textes alarmistes au contenu parfois pseudo-scientifique, certains penseurs et savants britanniques s’inquiètent de l’usure « raciale » de la nation, du péril héréditaire et de la présence insidieuse du danger dans le corps social. La connaissance de ce contexte, marqué par la renaissance du genre gothique, permet de faire sortir de l’ombre des textes inquiétants et d’apporter un éclairage nouveau sur des romans célèbres, comme L’étrange cas du Dr Jekyll et de Mr Hyde, Le portrait de Dorian Gray, L’île du Dr Moreau, Dracula et la fiction de Conan Doyle consacrée à la figure de Sherlock Holmes.L’être dégénérant en perpétuelle mutation revit un passé personnel, familial et biologique. Son corps est à la fois étranger et reconnaissable, monstrueux et déchiffrable. Certains romanciers prônent la régénération, d’autres mélangent jusqu’à les confondre la morbidité et la puissance, le dégénéré et le défenseur social, le malade et le médecin, le fou moral et le fou de moralité. En créant des êtres si indignes qu’il va devoir les liquider, l’écrivain transforme la dégénérescence en création.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- English fiction --- Great Britain --- Degeneration in literature --- Degeneration

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Degeneratie in de literatuur --- Degeneration in literature --- Dégénérescence dans la littérature --- English fiction --- -English fiction --- -Literature and society --- -Degeneration in literature --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- English literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects --- Degeneration in literature. --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History. --- 20th century --- 19th century --- Great Britain

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Decadence (Literary movement) --- Degeneration in literature. --- English fiction --- Fear in literature. --- Horror tales, English --- Human body in literature. --- Literature and science --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Degeneration in literature --- Fear in literature --- Human body in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Conrad, Joseph, --- James, Henry, --- Britten, Benjamin,

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Antisemitism. --- Arabic literature --- Arabic literature. --- Civilization, Arab --- Civilization, Arab. --- Culture in literature --- Culture in literature. --- Degeneration in literature --- Degeneration in literature. --- Economic history. --- Enemies. --- Islam --- Islam. --- Islamic civilization --- Islamic civilization. --- History and criticism --- 1900-2099. --- Arab countries --- Arab countries. --- Economic conditions --- History

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It has been widely recognised that British culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a sense of irretrievable decline. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative, into archetypal stories which sought to account for the culture's troubles and perhaps assuage its anxieties. Stephen Arata pays close attention to fin de siècle representation of three forms of decline - national, biological and aesthetic - and reveals how late Victorian degeneration theory was used to 'explain' such decline. By examining a wide range of writers - from Kipling to Wilde, from Symonds to Conan Doyle and Stoker - Arata shows how the nation's twin obsessions with decadence and imperialism became intertwined in the thought of the period. His account offers new insights for students and scholars of the fin de siècle.

English fiction --- Degeneration in literature. --- Literature and society --- Politics and literature --- Regression (Civilization) in literature. --- Loss (Psychology) in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- Social problems in literature. --- Culture in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Culture in literature --- Degeneration in literature --- Loss (Psychology) in literature --- Regression (Civilization) in literature --- Social change in literature --- Social problems in literature --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism. --- Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century.