The fin-de-siècle world

by Saler, Michael T.

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Full title :The fin-de-siècle world / edited by Michael Saler.

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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.