Labyrinths of Deceit
Subtitle: Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts & Studies)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: December 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780853238492
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Gothic & Romance; Literary Criticism & Collections / Gothic & Romance
Description: Prominent citizens in 19th-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.