The Victorian Age in Literature
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (589 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1537110373 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 84 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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‘I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit.’ In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Equally uncompromising about poets and poetry he does not hesitate to call Tennyson ‘a provincial Virgil’. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the Victorian novel he refreshingly comments ‘it is an art in which women are quite beyond controversy’. This book is an important landmark in our understanding of an age which produced some of Britain’s
We may laugh at the Victorians, and forget that they may be laughing at us. Publication date: 1913, in the "Home University Library," and yet as unlike a textbook as could be:" It was latitudinarian, and yet it was limited. It could be content with nothing less than the whole cosmos: yet the cosmos with which it was content was small. It is false to say it was without humour: yet there was something by instinct. Alan A. Keith said GKC Victorian Lit. I had forgotten how wonderful it get to read Chesterton's take on just about anything. As always, he is both informative and quirky, and a lot of fun.. Amazon Customer said Kindle is Great!. Love Kindle Free, it would take thousands of dollars and a lot of time to find these books IF YOU COULD; I have more than I can read but I love to have them on hand and have or will read them! Victorian Age Literature and its Free!
In 1896, he had also met Frances Alice Blogg, marrying in 1901. Nevertheless, in his late twenties he began to explore the possibility of a religious belief for himself, which he then discovered already existed as orthodox Christianity. Chesterton's best-known fictional character appears in the Father Brown stories, the first of the collection, 'The Innocence of Father Brown', being published in 1911. . Throughout his life he contributed further articles to journals, particularly ‘The Bookman’ and ‘The Illustrated London News’. In this book he developed his political attitudes in which he attacked socialism, big business and technology and showed
'The Ball and the Cross' followed in 1910 and 'Manalive' in 1912. In the years prior to 1914 his fame was at its height, being something of a celebrity and seen as a latter day Dr Johnson as he frequented the pubs and offices of Fleet Street. In 1896, he had also met Frances Alice Blogg, marrying in 1901. She was a devout Anglican and her beliefs strengthened his Chr