Labyrinths of Deceit
Walker, Richard J.
Labyrinths of Deceit Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century / Richard J. Walker. - 1 online resource (348 p.)
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Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those currents in order to present an alternative history of nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works of the period, Walker explores the crisis of identity that beset nineteenth-century thinkers and how that crisis revealed itself in portrayals of addiction, split personalities, and religious mania. Victorian England will never look the same.
9780853238492
Literary Criticism
History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
History / Social History
History
Electronic books.
Labyrinths of Deceit Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century / Richard J. Walker. - 1 online resource (348 p.)
Access copy available to the general public.
Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those currents in order to present an alternative history of nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works of the period, Walker explores the crisis of identity that beset nineteenth-century thinkers and how that crisis revealed itself in portrayals of addiction, split personalities, and religious mania. Victorian England will never look the same.
9780853238492
Literary Criticism
History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
History / Social History
History
Electronic books.