Century's End: A Cultural History of the Fin de siècle from the 990's through the 1990's. By Hillel Schwartz. New York: Doubleday, 1990. xii + 399 pp. $19.95.

1992 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-278
Author(s):  
Catherine L. Albanese
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
History Of

The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Blacklock
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fourth Dimension ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
History Of

The idea of the fourth dimension of space has been of sustained interest to nineteenth-century and Modernist studies since the publication of Linda Dalrymple Henderson’s The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (1983). An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de siècle as a staple of genre fiction and grew to become an informing idea for a number of important Modernist writers and artists. Describing the post-Euclidean intellectual landscape of the late nineteenth century, The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension works with the concepts derived from the mathematical possibilities of n-dimensional geometry—co-presence, bi-location, and interpenetration; the experiences of two consciousnesses sharing the same space, one consciousness being in two spaces, and objects and consciousness pervading each other—to examine how a crucially transformative idea in the cultural history of space was thought and to consider the forms in which such thought was anchored. It identifies a corpus of higher-dimensional fictions by Conrad and Ford, H.G. Wells, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, and others and reads these closely to understand how fin de siècle and early twentieth-century literature shaped and were in turn shaped by the reconfiguration of imaginative space occasioned by the n-dimensional turn. In so doing it traces the intellectual history of higher-dimensional thought into diverse terrains, describing spiritualist experiments and how an extended abstract space functioned as an analogue for global space in occult groupings such as the Theosophical Society.

scholarly journals Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

1970 ◽  
pp. 69-71
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Forth
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Female Criminality ◽  
Sexual Murder ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
History Of

Ann-Louise Shapiro's Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris is a compelling and innovative cultural history of the problem of the female criminal in France at the turn of the century. Shapiro's work is also refreshingly distinct from other histories of this period in that it brings a sense of theoretical rigor to her primary argument that the female criminal was "a code that condensed, and thus obscured, other concerns" (p. 4). In this sense Shapiro's work is reminiscent of Mary Louise Roberts' Civilization Without Sexes: Restructuring Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927 (Chicago, 1994) and Maria Tatar's Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (Princeton, 1995), recent works which address historical responses to the problem of dangerous femininity.

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