Day 9 -- Race, Decadence and Fears of Decline
The End of a Century
Eugen Weber, France: Fin de Siècle
- The End of the Century
- Negative Perceptions of the Fin de Siècle
- The Science of Decline (1)
- The Science of Decline (2)
- The Threat of Modernity and Defeat
New Perceptions of Crisis
Eugen Weber, France: Fin de Siècle
Thomas Cragin, Murder in the Parisian Streets
The Threat from the "Green Fairy"
Koenraad Swart, The Sense of Decadence in Nineteenth Century France
Eugen Weber, France: Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986)
Science, Race, and Decline
Eugen Weber, France: Fin de Siècle
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The Abandonment of the Christian/Enlightenment Idea of a Common Humanity
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Joseph Arthur de Gobineau
Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (Excerpts)
Alice L. Conklin, AMission to Civilkize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997
How Haitian Slavery Helped Finance the Eiffel Tower
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"How a French Bank Captured Haiti" (New York Times, May 20, 2022)
Emmanuelle Sibeud, “’Negrophilia,’ ‘Negrology’ or ‘Africanism’? Colonial Ethnography and Racism in France around 1900”
Anne Maxwell, “Colonial Photography and Exhibitions”
Symbolism and Decadence
Koenraad Swart, The Sense of Decadence in Nineteenth Century France
 Jean Delville, Portrait of Mrs. Stuart Merill 1892 |
J.-K. Huysmans' A rebours (Against Nature)
Decadence and Symbolism in Painting
Charles Baudelaire and French Decadence
Arthur Rimbaud, "Letter of a Seer"
 An Explosion in the Foyot Restaurant, Petit Journal (1894) |
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