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Individualism, Decadence and Globalization

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230277540

ISBN: 978-1-349-31995-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 30, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Individuals-in-Relation

Gagnier, Regenia

Pages: 1 –27

[This book began with points to which I kept returning since I began to write on the nineteenth century and social theory. These included, first, Holbrook Jackson’s description of the 1890s as “a decade singularly rich in ideas, personal genius and social will” whose “central characteristic was a...
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Chapter 2The Ironies of Western Individualism

Gagnier, Regenia

Pages: 28 –60

[This chapter analyzes conceptions of individualism from the middle of the nineteenth century to the interwar period by specifying the contexts in which these conceptions functioned. The Spencerians were concerned with the individual in relation to the State; Arnoldians with individuals in...
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Chapter 3New Women, Female Aesthetes, and Socialist Individualists: the Literature of Separateness and Solubility

Gagnier, Regenia

Pages: 61 –86

[Although it is always dangerous to write history while it is being lived, the current consensus is that in the last quarter of the twentieth century modern Western societies entered a third stage of technocracy. The first had been the industrial revolution; the second was the mass transmission...
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Chapter 4Decadent Interiority and the Will

Gagnier, Regenia

Pages: 87 –115

[The modern roots of Decadence as a relationship of parts or extremities to the whole were in 1830s American Gothic and British Aestheticism. Edgar Allan Poe elevated disease, perversity, and decay to new heights of artistic expression. Although Poe’s succcess in the United States was trivial...
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Chapter 5The Unclassed and the Non-Christian Roots of Philanthropy

Gagnier, Regenia

Pages: 116 –135

[John Davidson was a great admirer of the novelist George Gissing, who has come down to us as the novelist of réssentiment.2 Davidson’s resentful clerk in “Thirty Bob A Week” (1894) could have been a character in Gissing. Beginning with an altruistic mission, to cure disease, Davidson’s...
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Chapter 6Good Europeans and Neo-liberal Cosmopolitans: Ethics and Politics in Late Victorian Cosmopolitanism and Beyond

Gagnier, Regenia

Pages: 136 –164

[In a recent discussion of “Victorian Internationalisms,” the term cosmopolitan was used to designate the domain of individual feeling or ethics of toleration in contrast to the more geopolitical terminology of “inter-” or “trans-national.”1 For Goodlad and Wright, the tendency of cosmopolitanism...

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