Individualism, Decadence and Globalization
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Individualism, Decadence and Globalization

On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859–1920

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Individualism, Decadence and Globalization

On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859–1920

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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.

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Year
2010
ISBN
9780230277540

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: Individuals-in-Relation
  8. 1 The Ironies of Western Individualism
  9. 2 New Women, Female Aesthetes, and Socialist Individualists: the Literature of Separateness and Solubility
  10. 3 Decadent Interiority and the Will
  11. 4 The Unclassed and the Non-Christian Roots of Philanthropy
  12. 5 Good Europeans and Neo-liberal Cosmopolitans: Ethics and Politics in Late Victorian Cosmopolitanism and Beyond
  13. Appendix: Interiority, Exteriority, and Mystical Substitution: the Case of J. K. Huysmans
  14. Notes and References
  15. Index