Introduction / Michael Saler -- PART I. OVERVIEWS -- Global literatures of decadence / Regenia Gagnier -- The city and urban life / Peter Fritzsche -- The second Industrial Revolution / Andreas Killen -- The modernity of the fin de siècle / John Jervis -- Changing concepts and experiences of time and space / Stephen Kern -- PART II. PLACES -- EUROPE -- France / Mark S. Micale -- Britain / Nicholas Daly -- Central Europe / Suzanne Marchand -- Russia / Olga Matich -- Italy / Walter Adamson -- Spain / Lara Anderson -- United States / Richard Cándida Smith -- Canada / D.M.R. Bentley -- Latin America / Adela Pineda Franco -- Did China have a fin de siècle? / Maura Dykstra and Jeffrey Wasserstrom -- Japan / Selcuk Esenbel -- The Middle East / Jens Hanssen -- India / Ruth Vanita -- Africa / Rebecca J. Saunders -- PART III. POLITICS IN A NEW KEY -- The new nationalism / T.P. Baycroft -- The new imperialism / Sascha Auerbach -- The new politics of "higher individualism" / Chris Nottingham -- PART IV. MASS CULTURE -- Publishing / Chris Hilliard -- Transports of speed / Andrew Denning -- Consumer culture and advertising / H. Hazel Hahn -- PART V. KNOWLEDGES -- The universities and the human sciences / Peter Mandler -- Philosophy / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen -- The "new physics" / Helge Kragh -- Biology and eugenics / Marius Turda -- Psychology and psychiatry / Eric Shiraev -- Medicine / Andrew Smith -- PART VI. SELFHOOD -- Gender and sexuality / Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn -- Race and ethnicity / Laura Tabili -- PART VII. RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY -- Secularism, atheism, agnosticism / Vincent P. Pecora -- The Jewish fin de siècle / Olga Litvak -- Christianity / Vincent Lloyd -- Islam / Mawra Elshakry -- 2444 A.N. : Buddhism / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. -- New Age fin de siècle / Gary Lachman -- PART VIII. AESTHETICS -- Music and the Gesamtkunstwerk / Mark Berry -- The visual arts / Michelle Facos -- The cinema / Tom Gunning -- Scientific romance, fantasy, and the supernatural / Roger Luckhurst -- Children's literature / Seth Lerer -- Realism / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
Summary:
"This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. 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 Siècle 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-Siècle 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-Siècle period"-- Provided by publisher.
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