The lost pattern : essays on the emergent city sensibility in Victorian England / [by] R. A. Forsyth.

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Main Author: Forsyth, Raymond Aubrey, 1926-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1976.
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Table of Contents:
  • Themes and variations
  • The Victorian self-image and the emergent city sensibility
  • Geology and the early Victorian traveller
  • "The onward march of thought" and the poetic theory of E. S. Dallas
  • The myth of nature and the Victorian compromise of the imagination
  • Nature and the Victorian city
  • Evolutionism and the pessimism of James Thomson (B.V.)--The conserving myth of William Barnes
  • "The buried life"
  • "Europe", "Africa", and the problem of spiritual authority.