Search results for "Fin de siecle"

Late-Victorian Paganism: the case of the Pagan Review

2015

Cet article traite de l’unique numéro de la Pagan Review paru en Grande-Bretagne en 1892 sous la seule plume de William Sharp, poète, critique littéraire et romancier qui devait par ailleurs rencontrer le succès sous le pseudonyme de Fiona MacLeod dès 1894. Rédigé à une époque de profonde réflexion personnelle par Sharp, la Pagan Review porte également l’empreinte du remaniement religieux et littéraire de la fin du siècle et témoigne de la recherche de l’expression littéraire d’une subjectivité revendiquant un certain syncrétisme religieux, l’égalité des sexes et le cosmopolitisme culturel. This article discusses the sole issue of the Pagan Review (1892) single-handedly authored by William …

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2013

Rūdolfs Blaumanis, the Dreyfus Affair and the Anglo-Boer War: Colonial difference and identity construction infin-de-siècleLatvian society

2017

This article offers an insight into the social and cultural scene in Latvia at the end of the nineteenth century. The territory of this Baltic state was then still part of the Russian Empire, divided among several of its provinces. However, this was also a period when the cultural aspirations of the rising Latvian middle class were represented by the gradual attempts to raise the self-esteem of the entire local population. The article focuses on the role that Latvian writer Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863–1908) played in encouraging Latvians to understand themselves as a self-confident people during the fin-de-siècle period. The first part examines articles published by Blaumanis in the Latvian pre…

'Climbing Untrodden Paths and Unfrequented Passes'. De-Generation in 'The Buddhist Priest's Wife' by Schreiner, 'A Cross Line' by Egerton and 'The Un…

2013

This essay aims to show how different forms of de-generation in the social construction of fin de siècle female identity prove to be intentional instruments to defy conventional 19th century femininity and generate and circulate new female discoursivities in order to integrate forms of transgression into socially accepted behaviours. As critics have long argued the New Woman -the modern woman emerging from the disruption of the Angel in the House stereotype- has to be treated as a discursive process and a multilayered subject. The analysis of Schreiner’s “The Buddhist Priest’s Wife” (1891), Egerton’s “A Cross Line” (1893), and Grand’s “The Undefinable: A Fantasia” (1894), will highlight the…

La teatralización de la histeria en el espectáculo clínico decimonónico: Jean-Martin Charcot y la Salpêtrière (1870-1893)

2022

A finales del siglo XIX, la sociedad parisina encuentra en el espectáculo clínico un entretenimiento popular singular: el hospital de la Salpêtrière, bajo la dirección del neurólogo Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), exhibe todas las semanas a grupos de histéricas delante de un anfiteatro con cientos de asistentes. En ese servicio hospitalario, con un creciente número de casos de histeria femenina, se monopoliza y se manipula el trastorno través de mecanismos teatrales y espectaculares. Las famosas leçons de Charcot se convierten en un entretenimiento popular que todos los periódicos comentan y la enfermedad sobre el escenario se teatraliza dentro de un cuadro clínico, donde se expone el cuer…