Nineteenth-Century Studies: Coleridge To Matthew Arnold
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What did it mean to think, believe, and create in an age torn between faith and reason, tradition and revolution? Basil Willey's Nineteenth-Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold presents a magisterial survey of the great intellectual and literary figures who shaped the Victorian consciousness, tracing the profound crisis of belief that rippled through British culture from the Romantic era to the high noon of the Victorian age. Spanning thinkers and writers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge through John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Matthew Arnold, Willey charts the spiritual and philosophical currents that defined an era of unprecedented change, illuminating how each figure wrestled with the collision of science, religion, and humanism. Willey writes with the precision of a scholar and the grace of a stylist, situating each subject within the broader intellectual landscape with remarkable clarity and authority. His analysis uncovers the deep continuities linking Romantic idealism to Victorian earnestness, revealing a century not of simple progress but of anguished, courageous searching. First published in 1949 and later issued as a Pelican paperback, this landmark work of cultural and literary criticism remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the modern mind was forged — and what, in the process, was lost.
Author: Basil Willey
Format: Paperback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What did it mean to think, believe, and create in an age torn between faith and reason, tradition and revolution? Basil Willey's Nineteenth-Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold presents a magisterial survey of the great intellectual and literary figures who shaped the Victorian consciousness, tracing the profound crisis of belief that rippled through British culture from the Romantic era to the high noon of the Victorian age. Spanning thinkers and writers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge through John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Matthew Arnold, Willey charts the spiritual and philosophical currents that defined an era of unprecedented change, illuminating how each figure wrestled with the collision of science, religion, and humanism. Willey writes with the precision of a scholar and the grace of a stylist, situating each subject within the broader intellectual landscape with remarkable clarity and authority. His analysis uncovers the deep continuities linking Romantic idealism to Victorian earnestness, revealing a century not of simple progress but of anguished, courageous searching. First published in 1949 and later issued as a Pelican paperback, this landmark work of cultural and literary criticism remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the modern mind was forged — and what, in the process, was lost.