Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century – Richard J. Walker

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Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

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.


Autor: Richard J. Walker
ISBN: 9780853238492
Editura: Astro
Anul publicării: 2008
Pagini: 340Format: 155×240
Categoria: Carte straina

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