Description
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.
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.
About the Author
Richard J. Walker is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire.
Book Information
ISBN 9780853238492
Author Richard J. Walker
Format Hardback
Page Count 347
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press
