Fins de siècle / New beginnings /
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| Imprint: | Aarhus, Denmark ; Oakville, Conn. : Aarhus University Press, 2000. |
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| Description: | 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Dolphin, 0106-4487 ; 31 Dolphin (Århus, Denmark) ; no. 31. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4530813 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian Attitudes to 999/1000 AD
- Fictional Constructions of Female Vampirism in the Nineteenth-Century Fin-de-Siècle Crisis of Masculinity and Its Modernist Aftermath: Bram Stoker
- Root Music: Occult Notions of Identity in W.B. Yeats and Contemporary Social Criticism in Ireland
- Salomé and the fin du globe: Oscar Wilde's Decadent Tragedy
- American Spectres: Two Versions of Ghostliness in American fin-de-siècle Culture
- The Apocalyptic Predicament: Timothy Findley's Predetermined Novel
- Feminist Aesthetics at the Threshold of the New Millennium: The Questioning of "Feminine Essentialism" from Emily Dickinson to Julia Kristeva
- In the Meantime: Nation in New Labour's Millennium Countdown
- Globalisation -- A Catch-all Concept for the End of the Millennium
- Fear Amidst Plenty: The Duality of Economic Optimism at the Close of the 20th Century
- Linguistic, Mental and Biological Laws
- No Ground to Stand On
- Notes on Contributors
