The Undercover Revolution

How Fiction Changed Britain

Weight 0.12 kg
Dimensions 18.1 × 12.1 × 0.8 cm
ISBN 9781848710122
Binding

Paperback, eBook (ePub & Kindle), Paperback & eBook (ePub & Kindle)

format

Book

page-count

112

Original Pub Date

2009

Banner Pub Date

Jan 1, 2009

Book Description

Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain saw a mega-change in reading habits. For the first time fiction took the primary place in book publishing, and the medium was taken up by brilliant and entertaining authors with an agenda for ‘a brave new world’. Such men as Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw were the opinion makers for coming generations. ‘With the next phase of Victorian fiction’, wrote G. K. Chesterton, ‘we enter a new world; the later, more revolutionary, more continental, freer but in some ways weaker world in which we live today.’

Chesterton did not live to see the full consequences of the change but W.R. Inge predicted what was coming when he wrote:
No God. No Country. No family. Refusal to serve in war. Free love. More play. Less work. No punishments. Go as you please. It is difficult to imagine any programme which, if carried out, would be more utterly ruinous to a country situated as Great Britain is today.

Table of Contents Expand ↓

Preface vii
PART ONE
1 Introduction 3
2 Robert Louis Stevenson 9
3 Thomas Hardy 27
4 The Novelists Multiply 49
5 General Lessons 59
PART TWO
6 Is Christianity Fiction? 79
Index 97

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