Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire

British culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a strong sense of decline. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Si cle 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.

Author: Stephen Arata
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780521101271

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