The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H.G. WellsDaniel Born explores the concept of liberal guilt as it first developed in British political and literary culture between the late Romantic period and World War I. Disturbed by the twin spectacle of urban poverty at home and imperialism abroad, major nove |
Contents
The Problem and Promise of Liberal Guilt | 1 |
Gods Death and the Moral Imperative | 18 |
Little Dorrit and the Birth of Liberal Guilt | 30 |
Eliots Grandcourt Nature Nation and Empire | 51 |
George Gissing The Apologetics of Disengagement | 71 |
The Burden of Kipling Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness | 100 |
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