The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siècle Culture of Decadence

" During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the publication of a series of remarkable literary works that had their genesis in the intense scientific and aesthetic activity of those preceding decades-texts that emphasized themes of degeneration and were themselves stylistically decompositive, with

Author: Susan Jennifer Navarette
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 12/24/1997
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.46w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780813120133

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