The lost pattern : essays on the emergent city sensibility in Victorian England

Title
  1. The lost pattern : essays on the emergent city sensibility in Victorian England / [by] R. A. Forsyth.
Published by
  1. Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1976.
Author
  1. Forsyth, Raymond Aubrey, 1926-

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Description
  1. 217 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  1. City and town life in literature
  2. English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JFE 77-1679
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Forsyth, Raymond Aubrey, 1926-
Title
  1. The lost pattern : essays on the emergent city sensibility in Victorian England / [by] R. A. Forsyth.
Imprint
  1. Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1976.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 76380604
ISBN
  1. 0855641150
Research call number
  1. JFE 77-1679
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