Fitness and the Fin de Siècle

Greenslade, William

Abstract

In 1901, William Morris’s biographer J. W. Mackail gave a lecture on Morris to the I.L.P. Mackail infused the occasion with a pronounced sense of an ending. There was a feeling abroad, he said, that the nineteenth century had been a failure. Ideals had ‘come to nothing’; reaction was everywhere triumphant He asserted that ‘the end of the century which we have just passed through might well seem, to any highly-kindled imagination, the visible index of some approaching end of the world.’

Citation

Greenslade, W. (1992). Fitness and the Fin de Siècle. In Fin De Siècle/Fin Du Globe: Fears and Fantasies of the Late-Nineteenth Century (37-51). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22421-0_3

• Acceptance Date: Nov 1, 1990
• Online Publication Date: Nov 20, 2023
• Publication Date: Nov 20, 1992
• Deposit Date: Nov 20, 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 37-51
• Book Title: Fin De Siècle/Fin Du Globe: Fears and Fantasies of the Late-Nineteenth Century
• Chapter Number: 2
• ISBN: 9781349224234
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22421-0_3
• Keywords: Fitness, Fin de Siècle
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11456776
• Additional Information: Volume edited by John Stokes