Contents

• 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 at 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 ec-centric masculinities / Ed Cohen
• 6. Henry James and the spectacle of loss: psychoanalytic 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 to 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 reread? / Scott McCracken
• 14. Is market society the fin of history? / Regenia Gagnier