LEADER 03347nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910454088403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-05338-8 010 $a9786612053382 010 $a0-19-156431-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000748411 035 $a(EBL)431166 035 $a(OCoLC)326881661 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000120715 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11142217 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120715 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10081621 035 $a(PQKB)10319339 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC431166 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL431166 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288287 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL205338 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000748411 100 $a20080402d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChesterton and the romance of Orthodoxy$b[electronic resource] $ethe making of GKC, 1874-1908 /$fWilliam Oddie 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (412 p.) 300 $aWilliam Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings, to reveal the writer's spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870s to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. 311 $a0-19-955165-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [385]-391) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a8. Battles in the Last Crusade, 1907-8: The Man who was Thursday and Orthodoxy Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; 330 $aChesterton 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 William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings.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. Eliot 606 $aAuthors, English$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aChristianity and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthors, English 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory. 676 $a820.93823 676 $a823.912 676 $a823.914 700 $aOddie$b William$0608377 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454088403321 996 $aChesterton and the romance of orthodoxy$91110212 997 $aUNINA