The Fin De Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, C.1880-1900

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Summary: One of the best Fin de Siecle anthologies around
Review: Fin de siecle is one of those fascinating topics in literary and cultural studies. However, it is, just like postmodernism, a very hard concept to precise. Ledger and Luckhurst help to solve this problem thanks to a complete selection of texts that represent 13 cultural phenomena of the time. Probably the text would require some accompanying texts if the reader is not familiar with the topic, but it offers to the more especialized reader a very complete reference to those texts that are fundamental to understand the time but do not appear on the literary canons. A must for anyone interested in the end of the nineteenth century.