The Inklings, the Victorians, and the moderns : reconciling tradition in the modern age / Christopher Butynskyi
- Author:
- Butynskyi, Christopher, 1978-
- Published:
- Vancouver : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
- Physical Description:
- viii, 197 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Introduction: instruments of tradition in the march of progress -- Ink and parchment: a historiographical review -- Tradition: more than custom and convention -- G.K. Chersterton: mouthpiece of tradition -- Rasing the temple of science: a new marketplace -- Fellowship on tradition -- The broader conspiracy -- Not all books are created equal -- Epilogue: passing the tourch.
- Summary:
- "The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns examines a small group of twentieth-century traditionalists in their quest to reconcile and translate conservative traditional ideas within a progressive modern scientific context. The method of reconciliation derives from their continued value of myth, religion, liberal education, and ancient texts"--
- Subject(s):
- 1900-1999
- Inklings (Group of writers)
- English literature—20th century—History and criticism
- Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.
- Modernism (Literature)—Great Britain
- English literature
- Intellectual life
- Modernism (Literature)
- Englisch
- Geistesleben
- The Inklings
- Literatur
- Great Britain—Intellectual life—20th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781683932277 hardcover
1683932277 hardcover - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
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