| Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): Walker, Richard J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0853238499 ISBN-13: 9780853238492 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $49.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance - Social Science | Sociology - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.50 lbs) 347 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |