Contents are Alphabetical by Author and Title
Table of Dates
Preface
Introduction
I. AESTHETICISM
The Art of Living: Introduction to Aestheticism
Arguing for Art: Aesthetic Prose
Walter Pater
from Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)
James McNeil Whistler
from Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock (1888)
Oscar Wilde
The Decay of Lying (1888)
Oscar Wilde
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Vernon Lee
from Baldwin (1886)
Alice Meynell
The Colour of Life (1896)
Max Beerbohm
A Defence of Cosmetics and A Letter to the Editor (1894)
Arthur Symons
The Decadent Movement in Literature (1893)
Incantatory Art: Aesthetic Poems
Ernest Dowson
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae (1891)
Lionel Johnson
The Destroyer of a Soul (1892)
A Decadent's Lyric (1897)
Arthur Symons
Renee (1895)
White Heliotrope (1895)
Morbidezza (1892)
Maquillage (1892)
Lord Alfred Douglas
Two Loves (1894)
W. B. Yeats
To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time (1893)
When You are Old (1893)
To Ireland in the Coming Times (1893)
The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart (1899)
He Remembers Forgotten Beauty (1899)
The Secret Rose (1899)
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1899)
Oscar Wilde
The Sphinx (1894)
The Harlot's House (1885, 1908)
Impression du Matin (1877, 1881)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Michael Field
Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place (1889)
I Love You With My Life (1908)
The Mummy Invokes his Soul (1908)
Unbosoming (1893)
La Gioconda (1892)
A Pen-Drawing of Leda (1892)
Amy Levy
To Vernon Lee (1889)
Xantippe (1881) 1
Alice Meynell
Renouncement (1882) 1
Cradle-Song at Twilight (1895) 1
Why Wilt Thou Chide (1896) 1
Maternity (1913) 1
Easter Night (1915) 1
Graham R. Tomson
Aubade (1891)
Ballad of the Bird-Bride (1889)
Olive Custance
Doubts (1897) 1
The White Witch (1902) 1
The Art of Conversation: Aesthetic Fiction and Drama 1
W. S. Gilbert
If You're Anxious for to Shine (1881) 1
Max Beerbohm
Enoch Soames (1914) 1
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (1894, performed 1895, 1899) 1
Una Ashworth Taylor
Seed of the Sun (1896)
The Truce of God (1896)
II. NEW WOMEN
The New Women: Introduction
The New Woman in the Popular Press
Sarah Grand
The New Aspect of the Woman Question (1894)
Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee)
The New Woman (1894)
B. A. Crackanthorpe
The Revolt of the Daughters (1894)
Kathleen Cuffe
A Reply from the Daughters (1894) 2
A. G. P. Sykes
The Evolution of the Sex (1895)
Mona Caird
Does Marriage Hinder a Woman's Self-Development? (1899) 2
Alice Meynell
A Woman in Grey (1896) 2
New Women Poetry 2
May Kendall
Woman's Future (1887)
Constance Naden
The New Orthodoxy (1887)
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Cecilia's Way (1903)
E. Nesbit
Accession (1905) 2
Dollie Radford
From Our Emancipated Aunt in Town (1895) 2
Amy Levy
Captivity (1889) 2
Graham R. Tomson
On the Road (1889) 2
Matilde Blind
Prelude: Wings (1889)
New Women Fiction
George Egerton
A Cross Line (1893)
Ella D'Arcy
The Pleasure-Pilgrim (1895)
Mabel E. Wotton
The Fifth Edition (1896)
III. MIND AND BODY
Introduction
Body Fears: Degeneracy and Sexology
Francis Galton
from Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (1883)
Max Nordau
from Degeneration (1895)
Janet E. Hogarth
from Literary Degenerates (1895)
George Bernard Shaw
from The Sanity of Art (1895, 1908)
Havelock Ellis
from Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1901)
Edward Carpenter
from Homogenic Love (1894)
Political Solutions: Philanthropy, Sociology, Socialism
William Morris
Useful Work versus Useless Toil (1884)
Oscar Wilde
from The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
George Bernard Shaw
from The Basis of Socialism (1889)
Charles Booth
from Life and Labour of the People in London (1889)
W. T. Stead
from The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon (1885)
Writing the City, Writing the Country
John Davidson
Good-Friday (1893)
Arthur Symons
In Bohemia (1896)
Prologue: In the Stalls (18--)
To a Dancer (18--)
Prologue: Before the Curtain (18--)
A. E. Housman
Loveliest of Trees (18--)
When I Was One-and-Twenty (18--)
To an Athlete Dying Young (18--)
On Wenlock Edge (1896)
Thomas Hardy
Wessex Heights (1898)
The Darkling Thrush (1898)
Music Hall Songs: Gus Elen
If it Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between (1899)
Mental Hopes: Psychology, Parapsychology, Fantasy
William James
from Principles of Psychology (1890)
Sigmund Freud
from Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Dora) (1905)
Frederic W. H. Myers
from Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (1903)
Henry James
The Beast in the Jungle (1893)
IV. ENGLAND AND ITS OTHERS
Introduction
Writing Empire
James Anthony Froude
from The English in the West Indies (1888)
J. J. Thomas
from Froudacity (1889)
Henry Newbolt
Vitai Lampada (1897)
Rudyard Kipling
The White Man's Burden (1899)
Henry Labouchere
The Brown Man's Burden (1899)
The Scramble for Africa
Mary Kingsley
from Travels in West Africa (1897)
David Lloyd George
South African War-Mortality in Camps of Detention (1901)
The Eastern Empire: India
Rudyard Kipling
Gunga Din (1899)
Rudyard Kipling
Without Benefit of Clergy (1891)
Alice Perrin
Mary Jones (1912)
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892)
Laurence Hope
Kashmiri Song (1901)
Toru Dutt
Jogadby Uma (1882)
Celts and Colonialism: Ireland
W. B. Yeats
from The Celtic Twilight (1893)
Katherine Tynan
The Children of Lir (1891)
J. M. Synge
Riders to the Sea (1904)
Credits
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