Edinburgh Companion to Fin-de-Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts

Josephine M. Guy is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture, especially on Oscar Wilde, and is a member of the editorial team of the Oxford English Texts Edition of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. She has also published on text-editing and theory, on the history of English as a discipline of knowledge and, more recently, on the scientific study of literature, and the use of psycholinguistic methodologies to investigate literariness.

An exciting and adventurous collection which sets out to challenge established interpretations of this complex period.

• Introduction Josephine M. Guy 9-46Part I: Concepts1. Decadence and Institutions of Modernism in the American Literary Field of the 1910sKirsten MacLeod 48-852. The Matter of Form: Fin-de-Siecle Illustrated Poetry and the Periodical PressAlison Chapman 86-1163. Curious Intricacies: Versions of City Writing at the Fin de SiècleNick Freeman 117-1504. Gothic AestheticsAndrew Smith 151-1785. Catholicism and the Fin de Siècle Miriam Elizabeth Burstein 179-2116. Secularism and Secularisation at the Fin de SiècleSara Lyons 212-2507. The Claims of Kinship: Humanitarian Ideals at the Century's End: John Stokes 251-2798. Information in the 1890s: Technological, Journalistic, Imperial, OccultRichard Menke 280-308Part II: Places9. Fin-de-Siècle Scotland Caroline McCracken-Flesher 309-33310. The Irish Fin de SiècleAnne Markey 334-36611. Providing an Ideal Home: Paternalism and Persuasion at Bournville 1895-1914Margaret Ponsonby 367-39112. Theatre in the Provinces at the Fin de Siècle: Beyond Outcast LondonJo Robinson 392-41713. 'Truth About Russia': Russia in Britain at the Fin de SiècleAnna Vaninskaya 418-45114. Aestheticism and Italy: A New Sense of PlaceStefano Evangelista 452-481Part III: Identities: Female15. The 1890s Woman: New or Decadent?Jad Adams 483-50816. When a Best-Selling Author and a West End Actress made a Spiritualist Performance: Collaboration, Networks and Theatre at the Fin de Siècle: Catherine Hindson 509-542 17. Intergenerational Collaboration and Conflict: Women's Periodicals at the Fin de Siècle Alexis Easley 543-57118. Lily Montague and Liberal JudaismRicha Dwor 572-59919. American Nervousness: Motherhood and the 'Mental Activity of Women' in the Era of Sexual AnarchyEmily Coit 600-633Part IV: Identities: Male20. German and British Sexual Sciences Across Disciplines at the Fin de Siècle: 'Homosexuals', Inverts and 'Uranians'Ina Linge 635-66621. The Anglo-African Adventure Novel in the 1890sGerald Monsman 667-70722. The Fin-de-Siecle Detective: But My Job don't End There Caroline Reitz