Rooms In The Darwin Hotel: Studies In English Literary Criticism And Ideas 1880-1920
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At the turbulent crossroads of Victorian certainty and modernist upheaval, Rooms in the Darwin Hotel presents a rigorous and penetrating examination of English literary criticism and intellectual thought between 1880 and 1920. Tom Gibbons chronicles the seismic shifts in cultural and aesthetic ideas that accompanied the Darwinian revolution, tracing how thinkers, critics, and writers grappled with the unsettling implications of evolution for literature, morality, and meaning. The period examined is one of extraordinary creative ferment — a time when the old certainties were crumbling and bold new frameworks for understanding human existence were being forged in the crucible of literary debate. Gibbons writes with scholarly precision and a keen eye for intellectual history, illuminating the complex web of influences — from Nietzsche to Pater, from Spencer to Shaw — that shaped the literary consciousness of the era. The book argues compellingly that the Darwin Hotel was not a single ideological residence but a building of many rooms, each occupied by a different, sometimes contradictory, response to the challenge of scientific modernity. For anyone with a serious interest in the intellectual genealogy of English Modernism, this work raises questions that continue to resonate long after the final page is turned.
Author: Tom Gibbons
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, University of Western Australia Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the turbulent crossroads of Victorian certainty and modernist upheaval, Rooms in the Darwin Hotel presents a rigorous and penetrating examination of English literary criticism and intellectual thought between 1880 and 1920. Tom Gibbons chronicles the seismic shifts in cultural and aesthetic ideas that accompanied the Darwinian revolution, tracing how thinkers, critics, and writers grappled with the unsettling implications of evolution for literature, morality, and meaning. The period examined is one of extraordinary creative ferment — a time when the old certainties were crumbling and bold new frameworks for understanding human existence were being forged in the crucible of literary debate. Gibbons writes with scholarly precision and a keen eye for intellectual history, illuminating the complex web of influences — from Nietzsche to Pater, from Spencer to Shaw — that shaped the literary consciousness of the era. The book argues compellingly that the Darwin Hotel was not a single ideological residence but a building of many rooms, each occupied by a different, sometimes contradictory, response to the challenge of scientific modernity. For anyone with a serious interest in the intellectual genealogy of English Modernism, this work raises questions that continue to resonate long after the final page is turned.