Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century

by Richard J. Walker

Book Overview

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.

Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those currents in order to present an alternative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853238499
• ISBN13: 9780853238492
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"