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Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
0521563526, 9780521563529
LCC
PR878.D373 A73 1996
Open Library ID
OL967063M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6851822 bytes)
Pages
248\248
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

British culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a strong sense of decline. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle examines the ways in which perceptions of loss were cast into archetypal stories that sought to account for the culture's troubles and assuage its anxieties. By examining the work of a wide range of writers--from Kipling to Wilde, from Stevenson to Stoker--Stephen Arata shows how the nation's twin obsessions with decadence and imperialism became intertwined in the thought of the period.

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