Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France.(Book Review)

The Historian | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France. By Mary Louise Roberts. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 353. $35.00.)

Fin de siecle Europe has taken a linguistic turn since Carl Schorske's Fin de Siecle Vienna (1981). In lieu of organic metaphors describing the demise of classical liberalism--especially "decay," "decadence," and "decline"--recent historians, particularly of modern France, use more precise terms. Robert Nye, for example, has analyzed the end-of-century climacteric as a medical concept, one that contemporaries ...

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