Individualism, decadence and globalization: on the relationship of part to whole, 1859-1920

Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise. INDICE: Acknowledgements Introduction: Individuals-in-Relation The Ironiesof Western Individualism New Women, Female Aesthetes and Socialist Individualists: The Literature of Separateness and Solubility Decadent Interiority and the Will The Unclassed and the Non-Christian Roots of Philanthropy Good Europeans and Neo-Liberal Cosmopolitans: Ethics and Politics in Late Victorian Cosmopolitanism and Beyond Appendix: Interiority, Exteriority, and Mystical Substitution: The Case of J.K. Huysmans Notes Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24743-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 232
• Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés