Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth Century British Culture: Volume III: Literature and Philosophy in the Long-Late-Victorian Period [Hardcover]

This is the third in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of British Literature and Philosophy.

Volume 3: Literature and Philosophy in the Long-Late-Victorian Period

Edited by Andrea Selleri

General introduction

Volume 3 introduction

1. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Science of Deduction, of The Sign of Four (London and Philadelphia, 1890), pp. 13-17
2. Edwin Abbott Abbott, Preface to the 2^nd edition of Flatland (London, 1884), pp. 17-22
3. George Eliot, How We Come to Give Ourselves False Testimonials, and Believe in Them, of Impressions of Theophrastus Such (London, 1879), pp. 228-33, 236
4. Henry Jones, excerpt from A Criticism of Brownings View of the Failure of Knowledge, of Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher (London & New York, 1896), pp. 220-22, 224, 226-28
5. William James, excerpt from The Psychology of Belief, Mind 19.55 (Jul. 1889), pp. 325-31.
6. Gerard Manley Hopkins, That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection, The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. Robert Bridges (London: Humphrey Milford, 1918 [written 1889]), pp. 68.
7. Mary Augusta Ward, excerpt from Robert Elsmere l