This book explores the fin de siecle, an era of powerful global
movements and turbulent transition, in Australia and beyond through
a series of biographical microhistories. From the first wave
feminist Rose Summerfield and the working class radical John Dwyer,
to the indigenous rights advocate David Unaipon and the poet
Christopher Brennan, Hearn traces the transnational identities,
philosophies, ideas and cultures that characterised this era.
Examining the struggles and aspirations of fin de siecle lives;
respect for the rights of women and indigenous peoples, the
injustices and hardship inflicted on working men and women, and the
ways in which they imagined a better world, this book examines the
transformation and renewal brought about by fin de siecle ideas. It
examines the distinctive characteristics of this 'great
acceleration' of economic, technological and cultural forces that
swept the globe at the turn of the 19th century both within an
Australian context and on the world stage. Asserting that the fin
de siecle was significant for the making of modern Australia, and
demonstrating the impact Australian fin de siecle lives had on the
transnational and global movements of the era, Mark Hearn traces
the turbulent nature of the fin de siecle imagination in Australia,
and its response to these dynamic forces.
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