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G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

Author : Matthew Beaumont
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780935803
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity written by Matthew Beaumont and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. While Chesterton's work has often been valued for its wit and whimsy, this book argues that he is also a distinctive urban commentator, whose sophistication has been underappreciated in comparison to more canonical contemporaries. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of 20th-century literature, the book also provides fresh readings and suggests new contexts for central texts such as The Man Who Was Thursday, The Napoleon of Notting Hill and the Father Brown stories. It also discusses lesser-known works, such as Manalive and The Club of Queer Trades, drawing out their significance for scholars interested in urban representation and practice in the first three decades of the 20th century.

G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

Author : Matthew Beaumont
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780936834
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity written by Matthew Beaumont and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. While Chesterton's work has often been valued for its wit and whimsy, this book argues that he is also a distinctive urban commentator, whose sophistication has been underappreciated in comparison to more canonical contemporaries. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of 20th-century literature, the book also provides fresh readings and suggests new contexts for central texts such as The Man Who Was Thursday, The Napoleon of Notting Hill and the Father Brown stories. It also discusses lesser-known works, such as Manalive and The Club of Queer Trades, drawing out their significance for scholars interested in urban representation and practice in the first three decades of the 20th century.

Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism

Author : Michael Shallcross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317192605
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism written by Michael Shallcross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chesterton’s advocacy of popular culture and modernist literature’s appeal to an aesthetic elite. In setting out to challenge this binary narrative, Shallcross establishes for the first time the depth and ambivalence of Chesterton’s engagement with modernism, as well as the reciprocal fascination of leading modernist writers with Chesterton’s fiction and thought. Shallcross argues that this dynamic was defined by various forms of parody and performance, and that these histrionic expressions of cultural play not only suffused the era, but found particular embodiment in Chesterton’s public persona. This reading not only enables a far-reaching reassessment of Chesterton’s corpus, but also produces a framework through which to re-evaluate the creative and critical projects of a host of modernist writers—most sustainedly, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and Ezra Pound—through the prism of Chesterton's disruptive presence. The result is an innovative study of the literary performance of popular and ‘high’ culture in early twentieth-century Britain, which adds a valuable new perspective to continuing critical debates on the parameters of modernism.

The Illustrated London News, 1932-1934

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 0898708397
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated London News, 1932-1934 written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains all of G.K. Chesterton's columns in The Illustrated London News from 1932 to 1934. Most of the weekly articles have never been printed in book form until Ignatius Press undertook to do the collected works. Chesterton lovers will be delighted to find this treasure filled with jewels quite the match of his best writing. The breadth and depth of his knowledge - from history to politics to English fads and conventions - never fail to impress, and his wit is as refreshing as when these pieces were first written.

G. K. Chesterton

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438113013
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book G. K. Chesterton written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays on G.K. Chesterton's work.

Sidelights on New London and Newer York and Other Essays

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981354252
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Sidelights on New London and Newer York and Other Essays written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTSA FIRST WORD 5PART I NEW LONDON 8I. ON BRIGHT OLD THINGS 8II. ON CALLING NAMES 14III. ON KEEPING YOUR HAIR ON 20IV. THE COWARDICE OF COCKTAILS 28V. GATES AND GATE-CRASHERS 37VI. THE UNPSYCHOLOGICAL AGE 46VII. THE TRUE VICTORIAN HYPOCRISY 53VIII. MARRIAGE AND THE MODERN MIND 60PART II NEWER YORK 67I. THE AMERICAN IDEAL 67II. A PLEA FOR PROHIBITION 74III. WHICH IS THE GOVERNMENT? 77IV A MONSTER: THE POLITICAL DRY 81V. BERNARD SHAW AND AMERICA 89VI. THE CASE AGAINST MAIN STREET 94VII. THE CASE FOR MAIN STREET 102VIII. THEY ARE ALL PURITANS 113IX. SKYSCRAPERS 121X. AND WHAT ABOUT THE QUAKERS? 125XI. ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN LONDON 130XII. UNKNOWN AMERICA 135XIII. WHAT OF THE REPUBLIC? 140XIV. RETURN TO THE VISION 150PART III OTHER ESSAYS 159I. THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE IN LITERATURE 159II. THE MIDDLEMAN IN POETRY 172III. SHAKESPEARE AND SHAW 181IV. BERNARD SHAW AND BREAKAGES 186V. THE POPULARITY OF DICKENS 191VI. MAGIC AND FANTASY IN FICTION 195

Against Anarchy

Author : Cord-Christian Casper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110645874
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Against Anarchy written by Cord-Christian Casper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Against Anarchy' investigates the function of Anarchism in Early Modernist political fiction. The study explains how political novels from 1886 to 1911 narrate and evaluate the function of Anarchists as embodiments of a radical space beyond politics. The literary prevalence of Anarchists has so far not been connected systematically to its literary and political functions. The study addresses this research gap in detailed analyses of a radical theme in narratives by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and G.K. Chesterton. It shows that each novel presents strategies of demarcation that allow turn-of-the-century Britain to project its cultural anxieties upon an imagined other, the dreaded figure labelled ‘Anarchist’. The political radical is set up as the foil against which comforting self-descriptions can be maintained. Rather than merely reproducing this boundary work, however, the novels also evaluate its function, both for the respective political system and for their own narrative capabilities — and present the consequences incurred by the loss of an anarchist outside. 'Against Anarchy' is a thorough cultural historiography of the politically other and marginal. At the same time, the study demonstrates that close attention to the specific literary image of Anarchism allows for a re-evaluation of political thought beyond its immediate historical moment — a literary political theory in its own right.

G. K. Chesterton

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Silhouette Imprints
ISBN 13 : 9780899047386
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book G. K. Chesterton written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Silhouette Imprints. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

G.K. Chesterton & Hilaire Belloc

Author : Jay P. Corrin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book G.K. Chesterton & Hilaire Belloc written by Jay P. Corrin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Political Ideas in Modern Britain

Author : Rodney Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134910665
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Political Ideas in Modern Britain written by Rodney Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the New Right and the collapse of state communism in 1989 has fundamentally changed political thinking in the late twentieth century. Rodney Barker has revised and extended his classic text - Political Ideas in Modern Britain - in the light of these changes. His accessible account of political thinking in Britain since the 1880s now includes detailed analysis of: * the demise of traditional conservatism and socialism * the rise and decline of the New Right * the growth of feminism, liberalism and pluralism Political Ideas in Modern Britain charts the changing intellectual landscape of political thinking, illustrating how contemporary political thought is both rooted in tradition and a radical transformation of it. Whether the future is liberal, communitarian, pluralist, or simply uncertain, this is an essential guide for students of British politics. Rodney Barker is Senior Lecturer in Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Thinking Through Style

Author : Michael Dominic Hurley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198737823
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Style written by Michael Dominic Hurley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is 'style', and how does it relate to thought in language? It has often been treated as something merely linguistic, independent of thought, ornamental; stylishness for its own sake. Or else it has been said to subserve thought, by mimicking, delineating, or heightening ideas that are already expressed in the words. This ambitious and timely book explores a third, more radical possibility in which style operates as a verbal mode of thinking through. Rather than figure thought as primary and pre-verbal, and language as a secondary delivery system, style is conceived here as having the capacity to clarify or generate thinking. The book's generic focus is on non-fiction prose, and it looks across the long nineteenth century. Leading scholars survey twenty authors to show where writers who have gained reputations as either 'stylists' or as 'thinkers' exploit the interplay between 'the what' and 'the how' of their prose. The study demonstrates how celebrated stylists might, after all, have thoughts worth attending to, and that distinguished thinkers might be enriched for us if we paid more due to their style. More than reversing the conventional categories, this innovative volume shows how 'style' and 'thinking' can be approached as a shared concern. At a moment when, especially in nineteenth-century studies, interest in style is re-emerging, this book revaluates some of the most influential figures of that age, re-imagining the possible alliances, interplays, and generative tensions between thinking, thinkers, style, and stylists.

The Glass Walking-stick

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Glass Walking-stick written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Orthodoxy

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Orthodoxy written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesterton's description of his intellectual and philosophical journey to Christianity.

The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898701722
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton is an ongoing project, edited by many of the most prominent Chesterton scholars in the world, including Dale Ahlquist, Denis Conlon, George Marlin, Lawrence Clipper, and many others. These handsome editions include explanatory footnotes, introductory essays, and much more.

Father Brown

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812972228
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Father Brown written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties–gained during his years listening to confessions–Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. This definitive collection of fifteen stories, selected by the American Chesterton Society, includes such classics as “The Blue Cross,” “The Secret Garden,” and “The Paradise of Thieves.” As P. D. James writes in her Introduction, “We read the Father Brown stories for a variety pleasures, including their ingenuity, their wit and intelligence, and for the brilliance of the writing. But they provide more. Chesterton was concerned with the greatest of all problems, the vagaries of the human heart.”

Chesterton and Evil

Author : Mark Knight
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823223091
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Chesterton and Evil written by Mark Knight and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here, Knight crafts a portrait of Chesterton - the Fleet Street newspaperman who was able to entertain vast audiences as well as the thinker who could illuminate serious questions about justice, fairness, and faith, and who helped confront the new evils of the new century by creating works that gave vivid form to enduring truths about the good."--BOOK JACKET.

What's Wrong with the World

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Cassell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's Wrong with the World written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by London ; Toronto : Cassell. This book was released on 1912 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What'S Wrong with the World by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, first published in 1910, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.