London in the 1890s
a cultural history
1st ed.
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Word Count
111,250 words, Guess
Page Count
445 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1700584M
- ISBN-10039303397X
- OCLC Control Number25246302
- Internet Archivelondonin1890scul0000beck
- Library of Congress Control Number92000937
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2958329
- Goodreads1139309
Classifications
- DDC820.9/32421/09034
- LCCPR468.D43 B43 1992
Description
"Outcries against obscene art and behavior; anxiety about national decline in the face of emerging superpowers; bitter debate about women's roles and behavior; fear of a dangerous underclass festering in urban slums; misgivings about the price of progress; multicultural enthusiasms; vogues for a new age of mysticism and the occult; widespread feeling that the world is changing faster than anyone can assimilate." "Not America in the 1990s, but England in the 1890s as this fascinating book reveals. In the tradition of Carl Schorske's Fin de Siecle Vienna, Karl Beckson shows how in the 1890s London drew together and nurtured the seeds of modernism. Here are the great figures of that time - Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Beardsley, Kipling, Gladstone, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, among many others - engaged in the movements and debates, the great shifts in public behavior and feeling, that would make the world we know. The result is an entertaining cultural history that brings before us the time and the place where Victorianism gave birth to modernism."--BOOK JACKET.
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