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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Fin de siecle"”.
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Mapping sound: musical routes in fin-de-siecle Paris
… the urban map to favor a bourgeois lifestyle. Wide boulevards, new parks and squares, improved sanitation, and a thriving consumer culture made Paris the cosmopolitan center of Europe. Against this backdrop a multitude of musical milieus flourished, ranging from institutions such as the …
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Aesthetics and authority: Fin-de-siecle intellectuals and London music-halls
"My dissertation details the relations between literary intellectuals and the new leisure form represented by the London music-hall. I analyze debates over the halls during the 1890s within the context of late Victorian debates on literary professionalism and the effort to establish an autonomous …
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A concert of hells: Journeys to the underworld in `Fin de siecle' literature
"The journey to the underworld or katabasis constitutes one of the quintessential themes in Western literature which, though the product of a mythical and theological world view, has not vanished from the consciousness of modern man. It is intriguing, however, that in many prominent thematological …
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Constantin Meunier and the horseback shrimpers: temporal dialectics of obsolete labor in fin-de-siecle Belgian art
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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A modern mecca of psychic forces: the Psychical Science Congress and the culture of progressive occultism in fin-de-siecle Chicago, 1885-1900
… Exposition. The first international congress devoted solely to psychical research, the PSC was initially conceived by John Curtis Bundy, editor of Chicago’s progressive spiritualist newspaper, the Religio-Philosophical Journal (R-PJ). Upon Bundy’s death in August 1892, organizational matters …
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The figure of Christ in the works of Oscar Wilde
In this study I consider, by a process of close textual analysis, attention to larger symbolic registers, and comparative reference to other works of the author and his contemporaries, the thematic and structural function of the figure of Christ in the mature writings of Oscar Wilde. I have avoided …
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Damnation or Illumination: Harold Frederic's Social Drama and the Crisis of 1890s Evangelical Protestant Culture
… third of the nineteenth century, Harold Frederic's _The Damnation of Theron Ware_ illuminates the cultural controversies within fin de siecle America. Given the inconsistent nature of its subsequent critical examination, Theron Ware lends itself to a type of new as well as traditional forms …
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The Sources, Rhetoric, and Gender of Artistic Dress
This study of clothing designed by artists covers Western Europe between 1890 and 1912. The work argues for the consideration of artists' attempts to create beautiful clothing outside the fashion industry as a pan-European movement rather than an individual or regional interest. An examination of …
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Patronage, Corruption, and Political Culture in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1880--1916
… traditions that shaped the political culture of fin-de-siecle Buenos Aires at a crucial period of nation-state formation---namely, the decades preceding the implementation of mass male democracy in the Argentine presidential election of 1916. My research combined an analysis of the practices …
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The despotism of fact: Celticism and the transnational critique of capitalism in England and Ireland, 1865-1954
… Celticism crucially shaped the colonial definition of the Irish by the British, the decolonizing and postcolonial Irish responses to this definition, and the diverse literary visions of Irishness produced by British and Irish authors. Though Irish Studies critics routinely emphasize the …
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Kinderland in the Fatherland: Growing Children in Imperial Berlin
… autobiographers, too, saw glimpses of a Kinderland , a children's paradise, in the Fatherland. While historians have displayed an inability to see children in urban pasts, I center young children, from infancy to the start of elementary school at the age of six, in the narrative of …
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The vampire as eugenic examiner, 1880-1896.
… victims: killing and sterilizing where they find degenerate behaviours that would harm society were the victims allowed to breed. This occurred not only in texts by well-known authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'John Barrington Cowles', Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla' and Mary …
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In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century
This thesis examines the nature of identity and the problems implicit in attempts to affirm it within the context of nineteenth century modernity. By exploring a number of texts from Romanticism to the fin de siecle, it can be. seen that autonomous and coherent identity is not a stable entity. …
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Religion and the Return of Magic : Wicca as Esoteric Spirituality
Keith Thomas' celebrated theory of the decline of magic during the seventeenth century, and its disappearance by the twentieth century, stands in stark contrast to the magia naturalis of the Renaissance and the later occult revival of the fin de siecle from which Wicca developed. In this thesis we …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… role of women, particularly in regard to the development of the New Woman. I propose that there is an intermediary character type that exists between Coventry Patmore's "angel of the house" and the New Woman of the fin de siecle. I call this character the Wandering Woman. This new archetypal …
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Gothic economies: Global capitalism and the boundaries of identity
… Dickens and Mary Shelley, the Gothic has provided a rubric for literary conceptualizations of modernity. Dickens' depictions of industrial London characterize it as a labyrinth of temptations and horrors, haunted by monstrosity and by personal and social demons; the monster in Mary Shelley's …
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Massenet, Marianne and Mary : Republican morality and Catholic tradition at the opera
… resonated with a variety of contrasting ideologies which were reflected in cultural products and their reception, including opera. The operas of Jules Massenet, the most successful Parisian opera composer of his time, provide a good example of this kind of cultural mediation. A close …
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The Fin de siècle Cultural Watershed in Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Novels
… I analysed Gabriele d’Annunzio’s answer to the fin de siècle crisis from Terra vergine to the end of Romanzi della rosa (Il Piacere, L’Innocente, Trionfo della morte), including Giovanni Episcopo, which along with L’Innocente is an expression of the so-called Slavic phase. Analysing this …
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The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Fin de Siècle Jamesian Narratives
<p>Henry James once described emergent self—awareness of individual consciousness as an “illimitable power” that enables personal survival within a world that is, by default, unpredictable and volatile. Subsequent analyses of narrative subtleties and character evolution in James’s major works of …
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