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Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle : popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914 / Nicholas Daly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daly, Nicholas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature and anthropology--Great Britain--History.
- Literature and anthropology.
- Adventure stories, English--History and criticism.
- Adventure stories, English.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Culture in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Modernism, Romance & the Fin de Siècle
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on work in cultural studies, this book argues that the vampires, mummies and treasure hunts of these adventure narratives provided a form of narrative theory of cultural change, at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the 'new imperialism', the rise of professionalism, and the expansion of consumerist culture. Daly's wide-ranging study argues that the presence of a genre such as romance within modernism should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Incorporated bodies: Dracula and professionalism
- The imperial treasure hunt: The snake's pass and the limits of romance
- 'Mummie is become merchandise': the mummy story as commodity theory
- Across the great divide: modernism, popular fiction and the primitive
- Afterword: the long goodbye.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-11614-7
- 1-280-15361-X
- 0-511-11726-4
- 0-511-15097-0
- 0-511-32478-2
- 0-511-48507-7
- 0-511-05149-2
- OCLC:
- 437250326
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