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  1. Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture

    This article analyses the evolutionist discourses on the senses that emerged in the late 19th century, when theories on the evolution of species were...

    Sonsoles Hernandez Barbosa in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
    Article Open access 13 March 2024
  2. Tess of the d’Urbervilles and the Fin de Siècle

    Whilst there has been a proliferation of critical readings of Tess of the d’Urbervilles, relatively little attention has been paid to its role as a...
    Chapter 2024
  3. Fin de Siècle Japan

    In the decade following victory in the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese public, quite unsurprisingly, continued to be enamoured with the continued...
    Chapter 2023
  4. Les phrases pseudo-clivées inversées dans la traduction scientifique dans l’Italie de la fin du 18e siècle

    Au 18e siècle, la traduction de textes scientifiques joue un rôle fondamental dans la création de périodiques scientifiques qui s’adressent...
    Chapter 2023
  5. Bergson, Modernity, and Philosophy of Time in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

    This chapter examines the relationship between the prevalent philosophy of time in fin-de-siecle Europe and the increased interest in time and...
    Özen Nergis Dolcerocca in Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time
    Chapter 2023
  6. Fur Trade in Turmoil: Pelt Commodification in Leipzig from Fin de Siècle to Sovietization

    Since early modern times, a vast trade network known as the Pelt Road expanded from Siberia throughout Eastern Europe. At the turn of the twentieth...
    Chapter 2023
  7. Introduction : corps et capital dans la société et la littérature du XIXe siècle

    Au XIXe siècle, le roman devient le genre populaire par excellence. Dans ce volume, nous nous proposons d’analyser comment les images du corps et les...
    Chapter Open access 2024
  8. Asthet und Arbeiter. Anarchistische Positionsbestimmungen in der Kunst des fin de siècle

    In der Gegenüberstellung von Arbeit und Müßiggang und der Sichtweise auf den Menschen in seiner Einbindung in die Gesellschaft mittels seiner...
    Katharina Thurmair in Anarchie und Ästhetik
    Chapter 2022
  9. Fin-de-siècle Black Minstrelsy, Itinerancy, and the Anglophone Imperial Circuit

    Following the end of the US American Civil War, African American performers established themselves as popular rivals to leading white companies of...
    Chapter 2023
  10. « Capital santé » et névrosisme dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : neurasthénie et thésaurisation compulsive à travers L’Abbé Jules (1888) d’Octave Mirbeau

    Cet extrait, tiré d´un manuel scolaire utilisé dans les classes de primaire en France dans les années 1890 démontre à quel point les notions de...
    Chapter Open access 2024
  11. Tlemcen, Algeria: A Would-Be Esoteric Colonial Settlement of the Fin de Siècle

    In Fin de Siècle French Algeria, the city of Tlemcen and its countryside provide a rich set of autochthonous and imported esoteric communities: Sufi...
    Alexandre Toumarkine in Esoteric Transfers and Constructions
    Chapter 2021
  12. “Polishing” the Jewish Masses: Personal Hygiene, Public Health, and Jews in Fin de Siècle Warsaw

    This article examines the efforts of Jewish physicians and social activists to improve the hygiene habits of Warsaw’s Jewish residents. Warsaw was...

    Ela Bauer in Jewish History
    Article 23 August 2021
  13. A “Feverish Restlessness”: Dance as Decadent Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry

    This chapter examines intersections of mobility and health as aesthetic effects in selected poems by Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, and Michael Field....
    Chapter 2023
  14. Trilby (1894) in the Marketplace: fin de siècle Merchandising and Transfictional Character as Branded Object

    This chapter presents a history of fiction franchise merchandising through the example of George Du Maurier’s serialized novel, Trilby...
    Chapter 2022
  15. Saisir la part du capital corporel : réseaux sensoriels, relais métaphoriques dans L’Argent (1891) de Zola

    Un rapide survol des débats d’aujourd’hui ne laisse aucun doute sur les lignes de force de notre contemporanéité. Ces mêmes lignes de force animent...
    Chapter Open access 2024
  16. La douceur de la conversation d’après les traités de comportement (fin XVIIème – XVIIIème siècles)

    Maints auteurs des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles, à l’horizon de l’effort qu’ils prodiguent pour améliorer les mœurs, formulent dans les traités de...
    Christophe Losfeld in Der Wert der Konversation
    Chapter 2022
  17. Weird Tales and Scientific Borderlands at the Fin de Siècle

    Weird fiction and science both take part in a widespread cultural conversation at the fin de siècle about knowledge and the basis of its foundation....
    Chapter 2020
  18. A Comparison of the Core Concepts of the Chan Learning of Hu Shi, Suzuki Daisetsu, and Yinshun

    Beginning from the end of the nineteenth century, the world of scholarship valued highly the fin de siècle philosophy. They thought that the...
    Chapter 2023
  19. Le corse et l’amazighe, de la minoration à l’officialisation et de la famille à l’école

    En corse, la langue corse, suite à un processus d’hégémonie, a été reconnue comme un dialecte de l’italien et c’est grâce à un processus d’ «...
    Bouchra El Barkani in The Handbook of Berber Linguistics
    Reference work entry 2024
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