The Sleep of Reason: Fantasy and Reality from the Victorian Age to the First World War - Hardcover

The Sleep of Reason: Fantasy and Reality from the Victorian Age to the First World War.

Zustand: Gut. 233 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat rubbed jacket, slightly yellowed due to age, otherwise very good and clean. / Etwas beriebener Umschlag, altersbedingt leicht vergilbt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - 'A season of mental anguish is at hand,' wrote the author Winwood Reade in 1872, 'and through this we must pass in order that our posterity may rise. The soul must be sacrificed; the hope in immortality must die.' Reade was describing a world that was drained of meaning because it had lost its faith, a world in which the 'sweet and charming illusion' of conventional images of Christianity had been shattered. So if the Victorians stopped believing in and worshipping the regular Christian God, in whom did they believe, and what did they worship? If heaven and hell and the Last Judgement were myths, mere products of the human imagination, they did not simply vanish at reason's touch. The prescribed fantasies of religion were replaced by other myths, less pious but just as powerful: secret fantasies confessed on the psychoanalyst's couch or more respectable ones engendered by popular fiction. In this brilliant and provocative book, Derek Jarrett examines the 'osmosis of the imagination' and in so doing far extends our conception of the history of ideas. He charts the complex journey from faith to doubt, from piety to indifference, through novels, songs, poems and popular fantasies as well as private convictions and recreates a compelling view of the Victorian and Edwardian cosmos of doubt, scepticism, superstition - and a profound sense of loss. - Derek Jarrett is Editor of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's memoirs. He taught history in the University of London for many years. His publications include Britain 1688-1815, Pitt the Younger, Begetters of Revolution and England in the Age of Hogarth. ISBN 9780297792192 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 428 Original cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1182765

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