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Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siecle - Identity and Empire (Paperback)
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Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siecle - Identity and Empire (Paperback)
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It has been widely recognised that British culture in the 1880s and
1890s was marked by a sense of irretrievable decline. Fictions of
Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siecle explores the ways in which that
perception of loss was cast into narrative, into archetypal stories
which sought to account for the culture's troubles and perhaps
assuage its anxieties. Stephen Arata pays close attention to fin de
siecle representation of three forms of decline - national,
biological and aesthetic - and reveals how late Victorian
degeneration theory was used to 'explain' such decline. By
examining a wide range of writers - from Kipling to Wilde, from
Symonds to Conan Doyle and Stoker - Arata shows how the nation's
twin obsessions with decadence and imperialism became intertwined
in the thought of the period. His account offers new insights for
students and scholars of the fin de siecle.
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