Download or read book Fin de Siècle and Its Legacy written by Mikulas Teich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-12-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular conceptions of decadence, this volume of essays argues that the 1900s, otherwise known as la fin de Siecle, were in fact a time of essentially positive and progressive dramatic change.