This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of
essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely
significant period in history, the Fin de Siecle. 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
Siecle 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-Siecle 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-Siecle period."
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