Fictions of loss in the victorian fin de siecle identity and empire stephen arata cambridge cambridge university press 1996 pp xii 235 the fin de siecle remarks stephen arata may have enjoyed lumping things together but twentieth century criticism has for good or ill tended to separate them out p 5. It has been widely recognised that british culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a sense of irretrievable decline fictions of loss in the victorian fin de siecle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative into archetypal stories which sought to account for . Book description it has been widely recognised that british culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a sense of irretrievable decline fictions of loss in the victorian fin de siecle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative into archetypal stories which sought to account for the cultures troubles and perhaps . It has been widely recognized that british culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a sense of