OLD GODS FALLING BY MALCOLM ELWIN By the same Author: THE PLAYGOERS HANDBOOK RESTORATION DRAMA CHARLES READE: A BIOGRAPHY THACKERAY: A PERSONALITY VICTORIAN WALLFLOWERS OLD GODS FALLING CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE JUBILEE ENGLAND OF 1887 i. The Jubilee classes of society: the invention of Respectability: the new middleclasses: Humbug: manners and conventions in life and literature: the heyday of Humbug 2. Literature in 1887: Charles Reades bid for freedom of expression: Meredith: the literary pundit: test of antiquity: an epoch of ...
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OLD GODS FALLING BY MALCOLM ELWIN By the same Author: THE PLAYGOERS HANDBOOK RESTORATION DRAMA CHARLES READE: A BIOGRAPHY THACKERAY: A PERSONALITY VICTORIAN WALLFLOWERS OLD GODS FALLING CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE JUBILEE ENGLAND OF 1887 i. The Jubilee classes of society: the invention of Respectability: the new middleclasses: Humbug: manners and conventions in life and literature: the heyday of Humbug 2. Literature in 1887: Charles Reades bid for freedom of expression: Meredith: the literary pundit: test of antiquity: an epoch of transition. 3. The Nineties: the Tellow Book: Oscar Wilde: censorship: the circulating libraries: unthinking prejudice: the struggle for freedom of expression: the old gods falling. 4, What might have been a Preface. CHAPTER TWO GEORGE MOORE: The Comedy of a Card i. His vanity: sex obsession: egotism: his legend. 2. Birth and Boyhood: sensuality in adolescence: art student: Paris of theseventies: gives up art for literature: the bestial bard: literary beginnings: Zola. 3. A Modern Lover: craving for notoriety: A Mummers Wife: storm in Dublin: sixshilling novels: attack on circulating libraries: A Drama in Muslin and A Mere Accident: the Confessions of a Toung Man: notoriety achieved: Zola banned: social ostracism: Euphorion in Texas. CHAPTER THREE GEORGE MOORE: Tragedy or Farce? i. Failures: brother Gus: discards Bohemianism: aesthetic prose: dramatic aspirations: turns art critic: Impressions and Opinions: Vain Fortune: Modern Painting: a real romance: Mrs. Craigie. 2. Esther Waters: its reception and success: Moore a social lion: his disastrous courtship: Celibates a flop: writing Evelyn hues: his end as a literary lion. 3. Irelands national novelist: Moore about Moore: his last phase as a Grand Old Man of Genius, 4 Summary of Moores achievement, ETC
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Good in Fair jacket. London: Collins, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. A survey of popular English literature from 1887 to 1914. Stock a little toned but otherwise all in VG internal order. Blue cloth a little faded to extremities with wear to edges. D/j chipped to edges with some loss, in removable plastic. 8vo. 412pp.
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Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket in protective cover small tears to top and botton of spine jacket-rare and collectable-will send out 1 st class post.
