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Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859-1920

Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859-1920 - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Regenia GagnierSeries:Language, Discourse, Society (Hardcover)Publish date:2010-04-09Pages:219
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230247437ISBN-10:230247431UPC:9780230247437Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, ModernBook Topic:19th Century, 20th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.60 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCTBCXFBSR
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230247437ISBN-10:230247431UPC:9780230247437Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, ModernBook Topic:19th Century, 20th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.60 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCTBCXFBSR
REGENIA GAGNIER has held chairs at Stanford University, USA, and the University of Exeter, UK, where she is currently Professor of English and Director of Exeter Interdisciplinary Institute. She has also taught at Berkeley and Oxford. Her previous books include Idylls of the Marketplace, Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain 1832-1920 and The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society. She is also Editor in Chief of Literature Compass and Director of its Global Circulation Project and President of the British Association for Victorian Studies.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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2010 Edition

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