Chesterton and the romance of Orthodoxy : the making of GKC, 1874-1908 / William Oddie.

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy is an exploration of G.K. Chesterton's imaginative and spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870s to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century. William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished...

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Main Author: Oddie, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations for Works Most Frequently Cited; PART I; Introduction; 1. The Man with the Golden Key, 1874-83; 2. School Days: St Paul's and the JDC, 1883-92; 3. Nightmare at the Slade: Digging for the Sunrise of Wonder, 1892-4; 4. Beginning the Journey round the World, 1894-9; PART II; 5. Who is GKC? 1900-2; 6. The Man of Letters as Defender of the Faith, 1903-4: Robert Browning; Blatchford I; The Napoleon of Notting Hill; 7. The Critic as Polemicist, 1904-6: G.F. Watts; Blatchford II; Heretics; The Ball and the Cross; Charles Dickens.