TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Richard J.
TI  - Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century 
SN  - 9780853238492
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
KW  - History / Social History
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/81d87b29-409e-4fe5-90ba-295134d603bf
ER  -