TY  - GEN
AU  - Walker,Richard J.
TI  - Labyrinths of Deceit : Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
SN  - j.ctt5vjbnd
PY  - 2007///0101
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literature
KW  - Social and Cultural History
KW  - Victorian Age
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - England
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Culture
KW  - Identity
KW  - 19th Century
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those currents in order to present an alternative history of nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works of the period, Walker explores the crisis of identity that beset nineteenth-century thinkers and how that crisis revealed itself in portrayals of addiction, split personalities, and religious mania. Victorian England will never look the same
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26008/1/1004076.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30080
ER  -