The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel
Subtitle: Charles Dickens to H.G. Wells
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780807822418
Subjects: Cultural studies; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers; Guilt in literature; English Novel And Short Story; Special Subjects In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History and criticism; 20th century; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; English fiction
First sentence: We almost invariably associate the death of God with the name of Nietzsche, even though that death is presumed within the British Romantic tradition over half a century before the ringing pronouncement of Zarathustra.