Josephine M. Guy is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture, especially on Oscar Wilde, and is a member of the editorial team of the Oxford English Texts Edition of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. She has also published on text-editing and theory, on the history of English as a discipline of knowledge and, more recently, on the scientific study of literature, and the use of psycholinguistic methodologies to investigate literariness.
An exciting and adventurous collection which sets out to challenge established interpretations of this complex period.-- ""Valerie Sanders, University of Hull"" Distinguished and exceptional; they offer readers concrete arguments from which to expand and further consider the connections between the fin-de-siècle, decadence, and modernism.--Robert Finnigan, Nottingham Trent University ""Victoriographies"" The Edinburgh Companion to Fin-de-Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to familiarize themselves with the fin de siècle, covering common concepts such as the Gothic, Catholicism, and secularism as well as print forms, geographical differentiation, gender, and sexuality. Visual images included in the essays on form and little magazines are particularly helpful in understanding how poetic and prose forms aligned with fin de siècle notions in literature.--Keelia Estrada Moeller, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities ""Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 53, Number 1, Spring 2020""