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.
Críticas
"...Arata shows us clearly why loss and decay recur so insistently in late-Victorian writing." Christopher Lane, Victorian Studies
"His is a solid contribution to studies of late Victorian culture." Joseph W. Childers
Descripción del Libro
Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative.
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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.
Críticas
"...Arata shows us clearly why loss and decay recur so insistently in late-Victorian writing." Christopher Lane, Victorian Studies
"His is a solid contribution to studies of late Victorian culture." Joseph W. Childers
Descripción del Libro
Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative.