Journey Through Despair, 1880-1914 9781400877966

English literary culture from the death of Thomas Carlyle to the First World War was paradoxical and diverse. In literat

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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
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
Afterword on Bibliography
Index

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JOURNEY THROUGH DESPAIR 1880-1914

Journey Through Oespair 1880-1914 TRANSFORMATIONS IN BRITISH LITERARY CULTURE

by John A. Lester, Jr.

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 1968

Copyright © 1968 by Princeton University Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-15767 Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey

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