Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy [electronic resource] : The Making of GKC, 1874-1908
Oddie, William.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2010.
On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. Eliot pronounced that 'Chesterton's social and economic ideas were the ideas for his time that were fundamentally Christian and Catholic'. But how did he come by these ideas? Eliot noted that he attached 'significance also to his development, to his beginningsas well as to his ends, and to the movement from one to the other'. It is on that development that this book is f
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Abbreviations for Works Most Frequently Cited; PART I; Introduction; 1. The Man with the Golden Key, 1874-83; 'The permanent anticipation of surprise'; The view through the proscenium arch; 'Literary Composition among Boys'; The realism of fairyland; 'The white light of wonder'; 2. School Days: St Paul's and the JDC, 1883-92; Putting up a smokescreen; The genius of St Paul's; 'Don't you wish that you were me?'; 'A literary faculty which might come to something'; The emergence of a theo-philanthropist
Paradox and the democracy of truth'Gilbert Chesterton': is it a pseudonym? Greybeards at Play and The Wild Knight; Early journalism: The Speaker and The Daily News, 1900-1; 'The Pessimists who ruled the culture of the age'; Patriotism and anti-imperialism I; Early married life; 6. The Man of Letters as Defender of the Faith, 1903-4: Robert Browning;  Blatchford I;  The Napoleon of Notting Hill; The 'drift towards orthodoxy'; Defender of the faith I: the Blatchford controversy (1903); Patriotism and anti-imperialism II; The Napoleon of Notting Hill
7. The Critic as Polemicist, 1904-6: G. F. Watts Blatchford II;  Heretics;  The Ball and the Cross;  Charles Dickens; Defender of the faith II: the Blatchford controversy (1904); Heretics: why 'man can be defined as an animal that makes dogmas'; The Ball and the Cross; Liberal politics and liberal principles: the general election of 1906; Charles Dickens and the triumph of 'vulgar optimism'; 8. Battles in the Last Crusade, 1907-8: The Man who was Thursday and Orthodoxy; The Man who was Thursday; The war over the creeds: Gore, Scott Holland, and Campbell; Becoming Everyman
The thrilling romance of orthodoxyEpilogue; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Epilogue
On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. Eliot pronounced that 'Chesterton's social and economic ideas were the ideas for his time that were fundamentally Christian and Catholic'. But how did he come by these ideas? Eliot noted that he attached 'significance also to his development, to his beginningsas well as to his ends, and to the movement from one to the other'. It is on that development that this book is f
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
Authors, English
Christianity and literature