Modernism, romance, and the fin de si�ecle : popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914 / Nicholas Daly.
Publication details: Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages)ISBN:- 051101726X
- 9780511017261
- 1800-1999
- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
- Popular literature - Great Britain - History and criticism
- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
- Literature and anthropology - Great Britain - History
- Adventure stories, English - History and criticism
- Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain
- Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain
- Roman anglais - 19e si�ecle - Histoire et critique
- Paralitt�erature - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire et critique
- Roman anglais - 20e si�ecle - Histoire et critique
- Litt�erature et anthropologie - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire
- Litt�erature fr�en�etique - Grande-Bretagne
- Modernisme (Litt�erature) - Grande-Bretagne
- Culture dans la litt�erature
- LITERARY CRITICISM - European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Adventure stories, English
- Culture in literature
- English fiction
- Gothic revival (Literature)
- Literature and anthropology
- Modernism (Literature)
- Popular literature
- Great Britain
- PR878.P68 D35 1999eb
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Article Abstract: In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Si�ecle 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.