9780297792192 - The Sleep of Reason: Fantasy and Reality from the Victorian Age to the First World War von Jarrett, Derek (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover. Superficial marks and light scores on dust jacket. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are slightly worn and creased. Hardcover spine ends are a little bumped. Light foxing on page block head. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM. Used.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 233p ; 24cm. Subjects; Fantasy. Belief and doubt in literature. Popular literature Great Britain. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature 20th century History and criticism. Supernatural in literature. Imagination Religious aspects. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 233pp, owner's bookplate on front endpaper, pages browned, a few page corners creased, otherwise clean and sound, Good / Very Good dustwrapper. not price-clipped. ISBN: 0297792199.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First English edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Hardcover has lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine. Hardcover and dust jacket are in fine condition.

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 reasons touch. The prescribed fantasies of religion were replaced by other myths, less pious but just as powerful: secret fantasies confessed on the psychoanalysts 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 Walpoles 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.