Excerpt from Three Plays It is reserved for some great critic to give us a study of the psychology of the nineteenth century. Those of us who as adults saw it face to face in that last moiety of its days when one fierce hand after another Marx's, Zola's, Ibsen's, Strindberg's, Turgenief's, Tolstoy's stripped its masks off and revealed it as, on the whole, perhaps the most villainous page of recorded human his tory, can also recall the strange confidence with which it regarded itself as the very summit of civilization, and ...
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Excerpt from Three Plays It is reserved for some great critic to give us a study of the psychology of the nineteenth century. Those of us who as adults saw it face to face in that last moiety of its days when one fierce hand after another Marx's, Zola's, Ibsen's, Strindberg's, Turgenief's, Tolstoy's stripped its masks off and revealed it as, on the whole, perhaps the most villainous page of recorded human his tory, can also recall the strange confidence with which it regarded itself as the very summit of civilization, and talked of the past as a cruel gloom that had been dis pelled for ever by the railway and the electric telegraph. But centuries, like men, begin to find themselves out in middle age. The youthful conceit of the nineteenth had a splendid exponent in Macaulay, and, for a time, a glo riously jolly one during the nonage of Dickens. There was certainly nothing morbid in the air then: Dickens and Macaulay are as free from morbidity as Dumas p???re and Guizot. Even Stendhal and Prosper Merim???e, though by no means burgess optimists, are quite sane. When you come to Zola and Maupassant, F laubert and the Goncourts, to Ibsen and Strindberg, to Aubrey Beardsley and George Moore, to d'annunzio and Eche garay, you are in a new and morbid atmosphere. French literature up to the middle of the nineteenth century was still all of one piece with Rabelais, Montaigne and Mokere. Zola breaks that tradition completely: he is as different as Karl Marx from Turgot or Darwin from Cuvier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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