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The Victorian Age in Literature
G. K. Chesterton
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His great and real work was the attack on Utilitarianism: which did real good, though there was much that was muddled and dangerous in the historical philosophy which he preached as an alternative. It is his real glory that he was the first to see clearly and say plainly the great truth of our time; that the wealth of the state is not the prosperity of the people. Macaulay and the Mills and all the regular run of the Early Victorians, took it for granted that if Manchester was getting richer, we had got hold of the key to comfort and progress. Carlyle pointed out (with stronger sagacity and humour than he showed on any other question) that it was just as true to say that Manchester was getting poorer as that it was getting richer: or, in other words, that Manchester was not getting riche. . . Read More
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Classic GKC..
If this were my introduction to Chesterton it would have gotten a higher rating, because I love Chesterton. But for Chesterton, this is a fairly average book. Meaning it's full of great stuff, but doesn't hang together terrifically well. And while most Chesterton I've read, you really don't need to
At sixth form we came across a teacher who, direct from completing his PhD thesis on literature in the Victorian Age, had for some reason known only to him, come to teach English in a secondary school. Thank goodness he did. From dry & uninspired scene by scene, line by line, or chapter by chapter,
Some interesting reflections on the era and its themes in literary history. As usual, much interest in their philosophies.
ENGLISH: A complete history of British Victorian Literature in Chesterton's inimitable style. The only names I missed were Samuel Butler, Captain Marryat, Ballantyne and Ryder Haggard. Notice that children literature is not excluded from his analysis: he tackles Kingsley's "Water Babies" and Stevens
It might look a bit more disordered than your classic anthology of authors, but it surely serves right to have an idea of the mindset of the age, how historiography, and biography obsession to the point of ignoring context, and philosophical categorizations ultimately cannot describe man in its enti