G.K. Chesterton / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936--Criticism and interpretation.

Chesterton, G. K.

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 192 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Chelsea House Publishers, [2006]

Summary:

G.K. Chesterton, the "Colossal Genius," as his good friend George Bernard Shaw referred to him, wrote tirelessly on three principle themes: social criticism, literary criticism, and theology. By the end of his career, his oeuvre included nearly 100 books and more than 4,000 essays published in newspapers. After converting from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, Chesterton's writings on Catholic spirituality became so influential that he was named by Pope Pius XI as a "Defender of the Catholic Faith." His scathing commentaries on materialism, scientific determinism, moral relativism, and capitalism would set the pace for many twentieth-century debates. Chesterton's books of literary criticism, especially on Dickens, Chaucer, and Browning, have achieved canonical status in their own right, and as the range of essays collected here attests, Chesterton's remarkable literary output remains as challenging and influential as it was when it first began to appear a century ago.

Contents:

The Word and the World / Hugh Kenner 5

Rhyme and Reason / Garry Wills 31

Mapping the Artistic Terrain: 1904-1907 / Lynette Hunter 49

The Return to Hugo: A Discussion of the Intellectual Context of Chesterton's View of the Grotesque / John Coats 69

Chesterton on Browning's Grotesque / John Pfordresher 89

Visions from the Verge: Terror and Play in G.K. Chesterton's Imagination / Elmar Schenkel 97

G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy as Intellectual Autobiography / Ed Block Jr. 111

On Reading Chesterton's Chaucer / John McCabe 127

G.K. Chesterton and the Orthodox Romance of Pride and Prejudice / Marian E. Crowe 137

G.K. Chesterton and the Terrorist God Outside Modernism / Robert L. Caserio 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181) and index.

ISBN:

0791081311

OCLC:

62133709

Publisher Number:

9780791081310