Josephine M. Guy is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture, especially on Oscar Wilde, and is a member of the editorial team of the Oxford English Texts Edition of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. She has also published on text-editing and theory, on the history of English as a discipline of knowledge and, more recently, on the scientific study of literature, and the use of psycholinguistic methodologies to investigate literariness.

• Introduction Josephine M. Guy 9-46Part I: Concepts1. Decadence and Institutions of Modernism in the American Literary Field of the 1910sKirsten MacLeod 48-852. The Matter of Form: Fin-de-Siecle Illustrated Poetry and the Periodical PressAlison Chapman 86-1163. Curious Intricacies: Versions of City Writing at the Fin de SiècleNick Freeman 117-1504. Gothic AestheticsAndrew Smith 151-1785. Catholicism and the Fin de Siècle Miriam Elizabeth Burstein 179-2116. Secularism and Secularisation at the Fin de SiècleSara Lyons 212-2507. The Claims of Kinship: Humanitarian Ideals at the Century's End: John Stokes 251-2798. Information in the 1890s: Technological, Journalistic, Imperial, OccultRichard Menke 280-308Part II: Places9. Fin-de-Siècle Scotland Caroline McCracken-Flesher 309-33310. The Irish Fin de SiècleAnne Markey 334-36611. Providing an Ideal Home: Paternalism and Persuasion at Bournville 1895-1914Margaret Ponsonby 367-39112. Theatre in the Provinces at the Fin de Siècle: Beyond Outcast LondonJo Robinson 392-41713. 'Truth About Russia': Russia in Britain at the Fin de SiècleAnna Vaninskaya 418-45114. Aestheticism and Italy: A New Sense of PlaceStefano Evangelista 452-481Part III: Identities: Female15. The 1890s Woman: New or Decadent?Jad Adams 483-50816. When a Best-Selling Author and a West End Actress made a Spiritualist Performance: Collaboration, Networks and Theatre at the Fin de Siècle: Catherine Hindson 509-542 17. Intergenerational Collaboration and Conflict: Women's Periodicals at the Fin de Siècle Alexis Easley 543-57118. Lily Montague and Liberal JudaismRicha Dwor 572-59919. American Nervousness: Motherhood and the 'Mental Activity of Women' in the Era of Sexual AnarchyEmily Coit 600-633Part IV: Identities: Male20. German and British Sexual Sciences Across Disciplines at the Fin de Siècle: 'Homosexuals', Inverts and 'Uranians'Ina Linge 635-66621. The Anglo-African Adventure Novel in the 1890sGerald Monsman 667-70722. The Fin-de-Siecle Detective: But My Job don't End There Caroline Reitz

An exciting and adventurous collection which sets out to challenge established interpretations of this complex period.