Nineteenth Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold

by Basil Willey

Book Overview

The late Professor Basil Willey's important and influential inquiry into the history of religious and moral ideas in the nineteenth century has become (since its first appearance in 1949) a seminal study for all students of English literature and the history of ideas. Instead of surveying a complex nexus of ideas from a single vantage point, the author examines a shifting succession of beliefs. Religion and ethics are both the clue to those beliefs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521280664
• ISBN13: 9780521280662
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"