Abstract

Introduction Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken 1. The flight to the real Terry Eagleton 2. The New Woman and the crisis of Victorianism Sally Ledger 3. Empire, 'race' and feminism in the fin de siecle: the work of George Egerton and Olive Schreiner Laura Chrisman 4. W. B. Yeats and Irish cultural politics in the 1890s Stephen Regan 5. The double lives of man: narration and identification in late nineteenth-century representations of eccentric masculinities Ed Cohen 6. Henry James and the spectacle of loss: psychoanalytical metaphysics Marcia Ian 7. 'A very curious construction': masculinity and the poetry of A. E. Housman and Oscar Wilde Ruth Robbins 8. The Pilgrims of Hope: William Morris and the dialectic of romanticism Anne Janowitz 9. Urban utopias: socialism, religion and the city, 1880-1900 Lynne Hapgood 10. Vampires and the empire: fears and fictions of the 1890s Alexandra Warwick 11. Utopia, Limited: nationalism, empire and parody in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan Carolyn Williams 12. Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula Judith Halberstam 13. Postmodernism, a chance to re-read? Scott McCracken 14. Is market society the fin of history? Regina Gagnier.

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