NOUN
- the end of a century, especially the 19th century
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to or characteristic of the end of a century (especially the end of the 19th century)
fin de siecle art
How To Use fin de siecle In A Sentence
- Is their being at school together a tribute to the egalitarian education system that pertained in fin de siècle Vienna? Archive 2008-01-01
- It's a fin de siècle Bright Lights, Big City, with a Gen X twist and some post-po-mo juju thrown in for good measure. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Back in fin de siecle Paris, UK Garage was the big new thing. Archive 2009-02-01
- But it also participates in that taxonomic and totalizing impulse by disallowing for the possibility of alternative histories of sexualities that may or may not have fit under the fin de siècle homosexual rubric.
- fin de siecle art
- Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest
- 'Gender and national identity in fin de siecle Greece'. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
- By the fin de siècle this view of high-end consumption had so exploded that Thorstein Veblen unloosed the first modern sustained attack on luxury in his thoroughly entertaining Theory of the Leisure Class.
- Certes, ce désenchantement qui faisait très fin de siècle est une dégénérescence de pays riches où le "spectacle" a atteint les cimes du simulacre devant notre indifférence involontairement complice. Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
- Marking the transition from exclusion to integration in fin de siècle Vienna, women gained access to the University of Vienna and to almost all of the scientific institutes in the Mediziner-Viertel. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
