1900: A Fin-De-Siecle Reader (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)
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Book Description
At the turn of the nineteenth century, just like today, many people were terrified--or thrilled--by the seemingly unstoppable progress of science, wrestling with questions of sexual identity, and turning away from traditional religions or taking refuge in spiritualism, the paranormal, and "new age" philosophies. This selection of more than 120 writings from the four decades around 1900 brings together newspaper clippings, poetry, pulp fiction, scientific polemic, and sexological speculation, alongside classic texts by Conan Doyle, Stevenson, Wells, Dickens, Ibsen, Ruskin, and Zola. Vividly illuminating both the similarities and the differences between millennial and fin-de-siecle anxieties, this dazzling anthology forces us to look again at the progress we have made (or failed to make) in the last hundred years.
"A splendid starting-point for analysis of fin-de-siecle thought and for understanding the millennium"-- Elaine Showalter
About the Author
Mike Jay is the author of Blue Tide: The Search for Soma.
Michael Neve is a historian at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.
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