The Latin American Fin de Siècle Revisited: Expanding the Literary Field and Archive

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-219
Author(s):  
Alejandra Uslenghi
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Fin De Siècle

Decadence and Institutions of Modernism in the American Literary Field of the 1910s and 1920s

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Account ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Book Sales ◽  
Fin De Siècle

This chapter examines the tensions between ‘make it new’ modernists and ‘decadent modernists’. These tensions are traced through a detailed account of the institutions of publishing in Britain and American. Attention is given to the elaborately decorated books associated with fin-de-siècle culture. Evidence is also provided to show that at this time it was decadent writers who were enjoying greater success, in terms of book sales, than modernists.

Domesticating Decadence: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, and Their Invisible English Translators

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-472
Author(s):  
Colton Valentine
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Pierre Louys ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
A Current

Abstract Decadence eludes definition, but critics tend to concur on the movement’s transgressive and uncommercial status in the British literary field. This essay questions those associations by exploring a current of archetypal decadent French novels translated by and marketed to a mainstream Anglophone audience: Joris-Karl Huysmans’s En Route (1895, trans. 1896) and La cathédrale (1898, trans. 1898) and Pierre Louÿs’s Aphrodite: Mœurs antiques (1896, trans. 1900 and 1906) and La femme et le pantin (1898, trans. 1908). By reading letters, memoirs, and prefaces alongside periodical reviews and a publisher’s archive, the essay sheds light on the novels’ invisible translators and reveals the fiscal and legal viability of “domesticated decadence.” Doing so models how translation studies and book-historical methods can revise deep-set tenets of literary history. These “poisonous” epitomes of the fin de siècle in fact circulated freely across the Channel, reaching more than the happy few.

Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Lucila Mallart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

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