Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siècle France: From Anarchism to Action Française, by Patrick McGuinness

2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (567) ◽  
pp. 485-487
Author(s):  
Charles Sowerwine
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Fin De Siècle

Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siécle

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deaglán Ó Donghaile
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Ideological Commitment ◽  
New Interpretation

Oscar Wilde’s political identity informed his literary writings, which were motivated by his revolutionary outlook as much as they were driven by his Paterian “passion for sensations”. Addressing his radical engagements with anarchism, socialism and anticolonial thought, this monograph provides a new interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism and of his major works by emphasising the importance of progressive politics to his positioning and self-identification within late Victorian literary culture. Consisting of previously unpublished material, it provides a politicised and historicised account of Wilde’s key works by situating them within the framework of his very pronounced – but to date critically under-recognised and as yet untheorised - ideological commitment to these radical political causes. This book interprets Wilde’s better-known works against the important political contexts addressed in his correspondence, reviews, lectures and journalism, and through his personal relationships with contemporary radicals.

scholarly journals Merezhkovsky’s Neo-Christianity of the Third Testament: From Symbolist Historiosophy to Radical Politics

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Vadim Polonsky
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Integral System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Semantic Transformation

This article places Dmitry Merezhkovsky’s Chiliastic concept of Three Testaments into a unified structure. The author analyzes the writer’s integral system of Christological, anthropological, and historiosophicidiomyths and meta-symbols. He studies the religious, philosophical, and aesthetic genesis of the semantic transformation of traditional theological constructions and the doctrinal compilation of Russian fin de siècle culture dominant elements. It is shown how religious Modernist mythmaking alters political reality in Merezhkovsky’s mind and draws him towards radical ideologies of the extreme left and right.

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