C.P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity

by John De LA Mothe

Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who had little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote. John de la Mothe, however, convincingly challenges this analysis with an insightful reassessment of Snow's place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and writings reflect a persistent struggle with the nature of modernity. This is most notable, de la Mothe reveals, in the Strangers and Brothers sequence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773509143
• ISBN13: 9780773509146
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 288 Pages