Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle
popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914
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Publication
1999 - Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
55,000 words, Guess
Page Count
220 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL389973M
- ISBN-100521641039
- OCLC Control Number48080911
- OCLC Control Number40543251
- Internet Archivemodernismromance0000daly
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98055153
- LibraryThing6313684
- Goodreads3567551
Classifications
- DDC823/.809112
- LCCPR878.P68 D35 1999
Description
"In Modernism, Romance and the fin de siecle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880-1914, Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on recent work in cultural studies, this book shows how the vampires, mummies and treasure hunts of these adventure narratives provided a form of narrative theory of cultural change, at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the 'new imperialism', the rise of professionalism and the expansion of consumerist culture. Daly argues that the presence of a genre such as romance within modernism should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture."--Jacket.
First Sentence
In the romances of the fin de siecle we have tended to see a literature of anxiety symptomatic of some more general cultural crisis.
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