Journey through despair, 1880-1914 : transformations in British literary culture / by John A. Lester, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lester, John A. (John Ashby), 1915-1983, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1968.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

English literary culture from the death of Thomas Carlyle to the First World War was paradoxical and diverse. In literature it was a time of confusion and a nervous, often frenzied, search for new terms on which the imagination could live. Professor Lester shows that the literary culture of the period moved steadily from a suspicion that the old bases of significant imaginative life were indefensible to a widespread conviction that they had collapsed. His book is not an exercise in literary criticism. Rather, it is an attempt to discover the "geist" of an age, to provide a synthesis for the years 1880-1914. His overriding concern is: "What is the primary force which so unsettles, disperses, and disorients the imaginative experience of this period?"Originally published in 1968.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Αcknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

PART I: THE CHALLENGE

1. Toward Disillusionment

2. The Challenge

PART II: RESPONSE IN THREE MODES

3. Responses of the Heart

4. Responses of the Mind

5. Responses of the Imagination

PART III: APPLICATIONS

6. The Mask

7. Ecstasy

8. The Will to Believe: Emergent Existentialism

Afterword on Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780691622415

0691622418

9781400877966

1400877962

OCLC:

967552933