Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Plates vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Concepts
7. 1 Decadence and Institutions of Modernism in the American Literary Field of the 1910s and 1920s 23
8. 2 The Matter of Form: Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Poetry and the Periodical Press 46
9. 3 Curious Intricacies: Some Versions of City Writing at the Fin de Siècle 70
10. 4 Gothic Aesthetics 90
11. 5 Catholicism and the Fin de Siècle 106
12. 6 Secularism and Secularisation at the Fin de Siècle 124
13. 7 The Claims of Kinship: Humanitarian Ideals at the Century’s End 146
14. 8 Information in the 1890s: Technological, Journalistic, Imperial, Occult 162
15. II. Places
16. 9 Fin-de-Siècle Scotland 179
17. 10 The Irish Fin de Siècle 196
18. 11 Providing an Ideal Home: Paternalism and Persuasion at Bournville 1895–1914 215
19. 12 Theatre in the Provinces at the Fin de Siècle: Beyond Outcast London 229
20. 13 ‘Truth About Russia’: Russia in Britain at the Fin de Siècle 244
21. 14 Aestheticism in Italy: A New Sense of Place 263
22. III. Identities: Female
23. 15 The 1890s Woman 281
24. 16 When a Bestselling Author and a West End Actress Made a Spiritualist Performance: Collaboration, Networks and Theatre at the Fin de Siècle 301
25. 17 Intergenerational Collaboration and Conflict: Women’s Periodicals at the Fin de Siècle 321
26. 18 Lily Montagu and Liberal Judaism 345
27. 19 American Nervousness: Motherhood and ‘The Mental Activity of Women’ in the Era of Sexual Anarchy 361
28. IV. Identities: Male
29. 20 German and British Sexual Sciences Across Disciplines at the Fin de Siècle: ‘Homosexuals’, ‘Inverts’ and ‘Uranians’ 381
30. 21 The Anglo-African Adventure Novel in the 1890s 401
31. 22 The Fin-de-Siècle Detective: ‘But My Job Don’t End There’ 425
32. List of Contributors 440
33. Index 445
34. Plates 463