The Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts

Explores the significance of the British fin de siècle in Scotland and Ireland, as well as some regional cities in England The late nineteenth-century fin de siècle has proved an enduringly fascinating moment in literary and cultural history. It is associated with the emergence of intriguing figures—such as the 'new woman' and 'uranian'; with contradictory impulses—of decadence and decay on the one hand, and of experiment and renewal, on the other; as well as with unprecedented intercultural exc