03380nam 2200625Ia 450 991081585630332120230721021203.01-282-05338-897866120533820-19-156431-1(CKB)1000000000748411(EBL)431166(OCoLC)326881661(SSID)ssj0000120715(PQKBManifestationID)11142217(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120715(PQKBWorkID)10081621(PQKB)10319339(MiAaPQ)EBC431166(Au-PeEL)EBL431166(CaPaEBR)ebr10288287(CaONFJC)MIL205338(MiAaPQ)EBC7035048(Au-PeEL)EBL7035048(EXLCZ)99100000000074841120080402d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrChesterton and the romance of Orthodoxy[electronic resource] the making of GKC, 1874-1908 /William OddieOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (412 p.)William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings, to reveal the writer's spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870s to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century.0-19-955165-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-391) and index.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 Dickens8. Battles in the Last Crusade, 1907-8: The Man who was Thursday and Orthodoxy Epilogue; Bibliography; Index;Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy is an exploration of G.K. Chesterton's imaginative and spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870's to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century. William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings. - ;On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. EliotAuthors, English20th centuryBiographyChristianity and literatureGreat BritainHistoryAuthors, EnglishChristianity and literatureHistory.820.93823823.912823.914Oddie William608377MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815856303321Chesterton and the romance of orthodoxy1110212UNINA