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Journey Through Despair, 1880-1914
By (Author) John Ashby Lester
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th February 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
820.9008
Paperback
236
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
227g
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 ba