Labyrinths of deceit : culture, modernity and identity in the nineteenth century / Richard J. Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Richard J., 1967-

Series:

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 44.

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Social problems in literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Great Britain.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 339 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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 currents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those undercurrents 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-330) and index.

ISBN:

0853238499

9780853238492

OCLC:

58554344