English literary culture from the death of Thomas Carlyle to the
First World War was paradoxical and diverse. In literature it was a
time of confusion and a nervous, often frenzied, search for new
terms on which the imagination could live. Professor Lester shows
that the literary culture of the period moved steadily from a
suspicion that the old bases of significant imaginative life were
indefensible to a widespread conviction that they had collapsed.
His book is not an exercise in literary criticism. Rather, it is an
attempt to discover the "geist" of an age, to provide a synthesis
for the years 1880-1914. His overriding concern is: "What is the
primary force which so unsettles, disperses, and disorients the
imaginative experience of this period?" Originally published in
1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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