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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First Edition. Very fine cloth copy in very good dustjacket. viii, 196 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, viii + 196 pages, NOT ex-library. Gentle uneven age-tanning to endpapers only, else very good for age. Text pages are untanned, clean, with few faint marks from reading; no foxing, no age-spotting. Unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Small areas of minor faded staining on the upper page edges externally. Firm secure binding. Boards show rubbing to edges. Untorn dust jacket with regular shelfwear, sunning along the upper edges, gentle creases. -- In all the cultural centres of the Habsburg Monarchy, Vienna, Prague, Cracow, Budapest, the Fin de siècle was a period singularly rich in intellectual innovation. This volume contains a selection of essays based on papers given at a seminar series held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. The general approach is interdisciplinary: most of the essays concern the arts, but political and sociological aspects prevail. The authors treat intellectuals who are virtually unknown in the West, such as Justh or Karásek, as well as offering new approaches to figures as well known as Freud, Klimt and Schnitzler. -- Contents: Introduction; Liberalism or Hedonism? Arthur Schnitzler's Diagnosis of the Viennese Bourgeoisie / Martin Swales; Gustav Klimt: A Bridgehead to Modernism / Irit Rogoff; Sigmund Freud: Some Aspects of his Contribution / Brian Farrell; The Decadent Nation: The Politics of Arnost Procházka and Jiri Karásek ze Lvovic / Robert B. Pynsent; The Meaning of Czech History: Pekar versus Masaryk / Karel Brusák; National Sensualism: Czech Fin-de-Siècle Art / Tomás Vlcek; Zsigmond Justh: In Search of a New Nobility / Viola Finn; Mihály Babits: 'All Great Poets Are Decadent' / George Cushing; The Prophet of the 'Naked Soul': Stanislaw Przybyszewski / Stanislaw Eile; Index.