Description:
The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the period. By examining works by such writers as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, and Walter Pater, Murray Pittock analyses the nature of the 'Decadent era' and the artistic theories of Symbolism and Aestheticism.
Review Quotes:
'Unexpectedly revealing'- Chris Baldick, TLS
'One of the best general books on the nineties' - John Stokes, Journal of the 1890s Society
'Surprising and convincingly argued...ambitious and serious-minded', Modern Language Review 98:3 (1996),684-5