Yeast A Problem

Author : Charles Kingsley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535454117
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Yeast: a Problem, by Charles Kingsley, Illustrated by Charles Loraine Smith written by Charles Kingsley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yeast: A Problem (1848) was the first novel by the Victorian social and religious controversialist Charles Kingsley.Themes and sources Motivated by his strong convictions as a Christian Socialist Kingsley wrote Yeast as an attack on Roman Catholicism and the Oxford Movement, on celibacy, the game laws, bad landlords and bad sanitation, and on the whole social system insofar as it kept England's agricultural labourer class in poverty.The title was intended to suggest the "ferment of new ideas."Yeast was influenced by the works of the philosopher Thomas Carlyle, and by Henry Brooke's novel The Fool of Quality. Criticism It is sometimes said that Yeast suffers from its over-reliance on long conversations between its hero, Lancelot Smith, and the subsidiary characters of the novel, and from Kingsley's failure to integrate these discussions into anything resembling a coherent plot. On the other hand many have admired the vividness of Kingsley's depiction of the degradation and grinding poverty of the lower classes in the English shires. Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin..... Charles Loraine Smith or Charles Loraine (1 April 1751 - 24 August 1835) was a sportsman, artist and politician. He inherited his family seat in Enderby, Leicestershire while still a boy. He was a keen horseman and his paintings of animals are well regarded. He painted both parodies and more serious subjects. He served in the British parliament, was mentioned in a divorce case, met the pope and rose to be a High Sheriff of Leicestershire.