London in the 1890s: A Cultural History
by Beckson, Karl E
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039303397X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393033977
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About This Item
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. xviii, 445 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Outcries against obscene art and behavior; anxiety about national decline in the face of emerging superpowers; bitter debate about women's roles and behavior; fear of a dangerous underclass festering in urban slums; misgivings about the price of progress; multicultural enthusiasms; vogues for a new age of mysticism and the occult; widespread feeling that the world is changing faster than anyone can assimilate. Not America in the 1990s, but England in the 1890s as this fascinating book reveals. In the tradition of Carl Schorske's Fin de Siecle Vienna, Karl Beckson shows how in the 1890s London drew together and nurtured the seeds of modernism. Here are the great figures of that time - Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Beardsley, Kipling, Gladstone, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, among many others - engaged in the movements and debates, the great shifts in public behavior and feeling, that would make the world we know. The result is an entertaining cultural history that brings before us the time and the place where Victorianism gave birth to modernism." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102335
- Title
- London in the 1890s: A Cultural History
- Author
- Beckson, Karl E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 039303397X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393033977
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / British & Irish; European / 7. Late 19th Century;
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