Who Are Vera and Tatiana? The Female Russian Nihilist in the Fin de Siècle Imagination

2020 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Abby Holekamp
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Real ◽  
European Public ◽  
Fin De Siècle

Focusing on a close, contextualized reading of a single case of invented identity from 1906, this article illustrates how, in fin de siècle Europe, a mutually generative relationship between the real, the imagined, and the rapidly proliferating mass media transformed the female “nihilist” from an apocryphal Russian figure into a durable Russian archetype—an archetype that had significant consequences in the shaping of European public opinion about Russia.

‘Powers of Their Own Which Mere “Modernity” Cannot Kill’: The Doppelgänger and Temporal Modernist Terror in Dracula

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-76
Author(s):  
Whitney S. May
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Many ◽  
Social Upheaval

Of the many haunting figures that Gothic fiction invokes, none so perfectly encapsulates the mode itself, in all its fantastic incursions of opposing forces and clashing sensibilities, as the doppelgänger. Indeed, this figure in Gothic literature helps to push the bounds of subjective tension so central to the genre. This article examines Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) as an entry into the canon of doppelgänger fiction by complicating traditional readings of the central relationship between Count Dracula and Jonathan Harker. By revisiting the novel within the framework of a doppelgänger narrative, this article suggests that part of the real terror for Stoker's fin-de-siècle audience lies in the novel's timing. Located in the gap between the retreating Romantic and advancing high modern epochs, the novel dramatizes the apprehensions of a culture experiencing enormous technological and social upheaval. Specifically, it offers in its doubled pair a means to navigate those anxieties.

Religion in the context of the spiritual revival of Ukraine

1996 ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych ◽  
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Religious Spirituality

Ukraine for the third time in its history is experiencing a process of national revival, which not only intensified the activities of different faiths, but also raised the question of the place of religion in the life of the nation in general. That rehabilitation of religion, which took place in public opinion during the years of Ukraine's independence, changes in social assessments of its role in spiritual and national revival, Ukrainian state building, as we are, is more likely to be a response to propagation of religious spirituality by the mass media, a kind of illusion of the desired, rather than a reflection of the real processes in church and religious life.

The 1890s Woman

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jad Adams
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
The Real ◽  
New Women ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Independent Life ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Sexual Double Standards

This chapter takes a fresh look at the role of women in the fin de siècle, with a focus on their role in publishing—as authors, as subjects and as editors. It shows that while this industry provided opportunities for women, they were also exploited, and that there was little evidence of female solidarity among the real ‘new women’ of the time. It also emphasises the sexual double-standards that obtained, and the price many women paid for seeking an independent life, noting that while some enjoyed significant professional success, few found lasting personal happiness.

Resisting the Intelligence Almost Successfully: Wallace Stevens's ‘Academic’ Style

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Similar Form ◽  
The Real ◽  
Intuitive Notion ◽  
The World ◽  
Fin De Siècle

While the sweeping referentiality of T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound might seem to form the clearest connection between modernist innovation and academic work, this essay argues that it is in fact Wallace Stevens's erudite irony that most precisely anticipates the current set of relations between innovative poetry and the discipline of literary criticism. Stevens's work can thus be analysed as an intellectual collaboration not with a particular scholar or discipline but with the development of discourses specifically concerned about the value of hermeneutics. In particular, his poetry looks towards academic anxieties about the world in which the humanities now live: one that relentlessly demands educational pragmatism. This anticipation takes the form of a persistent concern regarding the artistic capabilities of abstract cogitation, something he puts into uneasy contact with a more intuitive notion of ‘natural’ positivism. This contact, in turn, manages to resist both the remnants of Romanticism and fin-de-siècle discussions about educational rationalization via a similar form of reflexive critical thinking. By foregrounding the tension between the ‘real’ and thinking about reality, Stevens turns his readers into co-workers, as both struggle to carve out a place for the difficult, impractical effort of interrogating what we can know about the world.

VICTORIAN ART HISTORY: RAP 2 UNWRAPPED

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Kestner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Art History ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
British Art ◽  
Victorian Art ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Victorian Painting ◽  
Media Event

AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Victorian painting experienced at least one mass media event, so far as circulation is concerned — the appearance of Frederic Leighton’s The Bath of Psyche (1890) on the wall of the drug kingpin in Paul Thomas Anderson’s notorious film Boogie Nights of 1997. As a ferocious deal is going awry, over the desperate dealers looms one of the masterpieces of the Victorian High Renaissance, a commentary through the cool classicism of the late Victorians about the corresponding fin-de-siècle of the lately finished century. It is a stunning moment — perhaps recognized only by historians of British art — but there it is nonetheless. One is to presume that the dealer has acquired the original from the Tate Gallery, since he would never own a copy, let alone a poster! Busboy superstud Mark Wahlberg has brief, violent contact with a masterpiece.

‘Fortuitous and wasteful mitigations . . .’

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pluciennik
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Civilian Conservation Corps ◽  
The Real ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Usa

In this fin de siècle moment – or is it closer to a mood of Depression? – the Keynesian idea of expanded government spending is much in vogue. We have been here before. As Shannon Lee Dawdy notes, part of Roosevelt's New Deal in the USA was the famous Civilian Conservation Corps, who performed much archaeology and related work (Maher 2008; Paige 1985). It seems particularly appropriate, then, to repeat a famous quote of Keynes: after all, archaeology comes surprisingly close to that much-derided Keynesian remedy. It was in his General theory of employment, interest and money that he wrote, ‘“To dig holes in the ground,” paid for out of savings, will increase, not only employment, but the real national dividend of useful goods and services’ (Keynes 1936, 220). What is less often quoted, though, is the subsequent comment: ‘It is not reasonable, however, that a sensible community should be content to remain dependent on such fortuitous and often wasteful mitigations’.

scholarly journals «The meaning of state»: the byzantine idea on the pages of the liberal journal

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-25
Author(s):  
B.V. Mezhuyev
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Moral Good ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Right

The article considers the reaction in the Russian society on the piece by Vl. Soloviev «The Meaning of State» which was published by the liberal journal «The Herald of Europe» in December 1895. Special attention is paid on the causes of the indignation at this article in the left circles which were already peeved against the philosopher for his previous work of the same year - «The Meaning of War», and on the motives of the approval of «The Meaning of State» by the right publicists. It is stressed that the most important task for Vl. Soloviev in the period of writing his treatise «The Justification of Moral Good» was to demonstrate his allegiance to that ideas of his father, the prominent liberal historian S.M. Soloviev which could be seen, from the standpoint of the «fin de siècle» liberalism, as very conservative. The author formulates a hypothesis that the article “The Meaning of State” was destined to incorporate into the corpus of the ethical treatise by Vl. Soloviev but the specific way of polarization of Russian public opinion and the desire of philosopher to stay in the liberal circle determined his decision to exclude the predominant piece of this text from the book. It is stated that the article «The Meaning of State» was kept in memory for a long time as a strange and unique phenomenon of the appearance of the apology of Byzantine, autocratic state on the pages of leading liberal issue.

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