Fin de Siecle : A Reader in Cultural History, C. 1880-1900

Introduction: Reading the `Fin de Siecle' xiii Sally Ledger Roger Luckhurst Editors' Note xxiv Degeneration 1(24) Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880) 3(2) Edwin Ray Lankester `Zoological Retrogression' (1891) 5(8) H. G. Wells Degeneration (1895) 13(4) Max Nordau Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau (1895) 17(2) Egmont Hake review of Degeneration by Max Nordau (1895) 19(1) William James The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (1895/1908) 20(5) George Bernard Shaw Editors' Notes 22(3) Outcast London 25(28) `The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor (1883) 27(5) Andrew Mearns `The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon' (1885) 32(7) W. T. Stead Life and Labour of the People of London (1889) 39(6) Charles Booth In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890) 45(8) William Booth Editors' Notes 50(3) The Metropolis 53(22) `The Mind of Crowds' (1895) 55(6) Gustave Le Bon `The Metropolis and Mental Life' (1903) 61(6) Georg Simmel `At the Alhambra: Impressions and Sensations' (1896) 67(2) Arthur Symons Why We Attacked the Empire (1895) 69(6) Mrs Ormiston Chant Editors' Notes 72(3) The New Woman 75(22) `Marriage' (1888) 77(3) Mona Caird `Character Note: The New Woman' (1894) 80(3) `Why Women are Ceasing to Marry' (1899) 83(5) Ella Hepworth Dixon `The New Aspect of the Woman Question' (1894) 88(2) Sarah Grand `The New Woman in Fiction and Fact' (1894) 90(2) M. Eastwood `An Appeal Against Female Suffrage' (1889) 92(2) Mrs Humphry Ward `The Appeal Against Female Suffrage: A Reply' (1889) 94(3) Millicent Garrett Fawcett Editors' Notes 95(2) Literary Debates 97(36) `Realism and Romance' (1886) 99(5) Andrew Lang `The Decadent Movement in Literature' (1893) 104(7) Arthur Symons Eliza Lynn Linton and, Thomas Hardy, `Candour in English Fiction' (1890) 111(9) Walter Besant `Tommyrotics' (1895) 120(7) Hugh E. M. Stutfield Editorial Comment, Daily Telegraph (14 March 1891) 127(2) `Henrik Ibsen' (1889) 129(4) Arthur Symons Editors' Notes 130(3) The New Imperialism 133(40) The `Forward' Policy 135(1) The Expansion of England (1883) 135(2) Sir John Seeley `The True Conception of Empire' (1897) 137(4) Joseph Chamberlain speech at Drill Hall, Cape Town (18 July 1899) 141(3) Cecil Rhodes Reportage 144(1) The Illustrated London News (14 February 1885) 144(1) General Gordon from the original manuscripts of Father Joseph Ohrwalder, Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882--92 (1893) 145(1) Major F. R. Wingate `The Battle of Omdurman', With Kitchener to Khartum (1898) 146(3) G. W. Steevens `Relief of Mafeking' and `London's Roar of Jubilation', Daily Mail (19 May 1900) 149(5) `Affairs on the Upper Congo', The Times (14 May 1897) 154(2) Critiques 156(1) ```Bloody Niggers''' (1897) 156(3) R. B. Cunninghame Graham An English South African's View of the Situation (1899) 159(3) Olive Schreiner Imperialism: A Study (1902) 162(4) J. A. Hobson `The Story of the Congo Free State' (1920) 166(7) E. D. Morel Editors' Notes 168(5) Socialism 173(26) `How We Live and How We Might Live' (1887) 175(5) William Morris `The Economic Basis of Socialism' (1889) 180(5) George Bernard Shaw `The Soul of Man Under Socialism' (1891) 185(6) Oscar Wilde Women and Socialism (1907) 191(8) Isabella O. Ford Editors' Notes 197(2) Anarchism 199(22) Words of a Rebel (1885) 201(3) Peter Kropotkin `Anarchy' (1888) 204(3) Johann [John] Most letter to Commonweal (18 May 1889) 207(3) William Morris `Anarchist', letter to Commonweal (22 June 1889) 210(1) `The Explosion in Greenwich Park' and `Bourdin's Antecedents', The Times (17 February 1894) 211(4) `Anarchism: What it Really Stands For' (1911) 215(6) Emma Goldman Editors' Notes 219(2) Scientific Naturalism 221(22) `On the Physical Basis of Life' (1870) 223(3) T. H. Huxley `On the Aims and Instruments of Scientific Thought' (1872) 226(2) W. K. Clifford `Belfast Address' (1874) 228(7) John Tyndall A Grammar of Science (1892) 235(3) Karl Pearson Evolution and Ethics (1893) 238(5) T. H. Huxley Editors' Notes 241(2) Psychology 243(26) `Hysteria', A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine (1892) 245(6) H. B. Donkin `On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena' (1893) 251(5) Josef Breuer Sigmund Freud `The Stream of Thought', The Principles of Psychology (1890) 256(3) William James `The Subliminal Consciousness' (1891) 259(4) F.W.H. Myers `Nervous Diseases and Modern Life' (1895) 263(6) T. Clifford Allbutt Editors' Notes 267(2) Psychical Research 269(22) `Objects of the Society' (1882) 271(1) `Address by the President at the First General Meeting' (1882) 272(3) Henry Sidgwick `Thought-Reading' (1882) 275(3) William Barrett Edmund Gurney F.W.H. Myers `Psychical Research', Pall Mall Gazette (21 October 1882) 278(2) Leader Comment `How We Intend to Study Borderland' (1893) 280(3) W. T. Stead `Telepathy: A Passing Note Reporting Progress in Telepathic Automatism' (1894) 283(3) W. T. Stead `Ghosts up to Date' (1894) 286(5) Andrew Lang Editors' Notes 288(3) Sexology 291(24) `Nymphomania', A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine (1892) 293(4) Gustave Bouchereau Psychopathia Sexualis with Especial Reference to Antipathic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Forensic Study (1886) 297(6) Richard von Krafft-Ebing `The Intermediate Sex' (1894/1906) 303(4) Edward Carpenter A Problem in Modern Ethics, Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Turists (1896) 307(2) John Addington Symonds `Case XVIII' [John Addington Symonds], Sexual Inversion (1897) 309(6) Havelock Ellis Editors' Notes 313(2) Anthropology and Racial Science 315(28) `The Science of Culture', Primitive Culture (1871) 317(4) Edward Tylor `The Primitive Man---Physical', The Primitive Man---Emotional', `The Primitive Man---Intellectual', The Principles of Sociology (1876) 321(5) Herbert Spencer National Life from the Standpoint of Science (1900) 326(3) Karl Pearson `Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope and Aims' (1904) 329(4) Francis Galton `The Clash of Cultures', West African Studies (1899) 333(3) Mary Kingsley Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits (volume ii) 336(7) A. C. Haddon W. H. R. Rivers Editors' Notes 339(4) Sources of Material 343(6) Secondary Reading 349(6) Index 355