Main Currents In 19th Century Literature

Author : George Brandes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483137387
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. 4 of 6 (Classic Reprint) written by George Brandes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. 4 of 6 IT is my intention to trace in the poetry of England of the first decades of this century, the course of the strong, deep, pregnant current in the intellectual life of the country, which, sweeping away the classic forms and conventions, produces a Naturalism dominating the whole of literature, which from Naturalism leads to Radicalism, from revolt against traditional convention in literature to vigorous rebellion against religious and political reaction, and which bears in its bosom the germs of all the liberal ideas and emancipatory achievements of the later periods of European civilisation. The literary period which I now proceed to describe is a vigorous, highly productive one. It has authors and schools of the most dissimilar types, sometimes not merely unlike, but antagonistic to, each other. Though the connection between these authors and schools is not self-evident, but only discernible to the understanding, critical eye, yet the period has its unity, and the picture it presents, though a many-coloured, restless one, is a coherent composition, the work of the great artist, history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.