G.K. Chesterton : a biography / Ian Ker.
Ker, I. T. (Ian Turnbull)
2011
PR4453.C4 Z664 2011 (Mapit)
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Title G.K. Chesterton : a biography / Ian Ker.
Author Ker, I. T. (Ian Turnbull)
ISBN 9780199601288 (alk. paper)
0199601283 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xx, 747 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PR4453.C4 Z664 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 828/.91209 B
Summary G. K. Chesterton is remembered as a brilliant creator of nonsense and satirical verse, author of the Father Brown stories and the innovative novel,The Man who was Thursday, and yet today he is not counted among the major English novelists and poets. However, this major new biography argues that Chesterton should be seen as the successor of the great Victorian prose writers, Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, and above all Newman. Chesterton's achievement as one of the great English literary critics has not hitherto been fully recognized, perhaps because his best literary criticism is of prose rather than poetry. Ian Ker remedies this neglect, paying particular attention to Chesterton's writings on the Victorians, especially Dickens. As a social and political thinker, Chesterton is contrasted here with contemporary intellectuals like Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in his championing of democracy and the masses. Pre-eminently a controversialist, as revealed in his prolific journalistic output, he became a formidable apologist for Christianity and Catholicism, as well as a powerful satirist of anti-Catholicism. This full-length life of G. K. Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer. It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton's joyful humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and his love of the ordinary things of life.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The early days
Publishing and engagement
Marriage and fame
Controversy
Dickens
Orthodoxy
Shaw and Beaconsfield
Father Brown and the Marconi scandal
The Victorian compromise and illness
War and travel
America and conversion
The everlasting man
Distributism and apologetics
Rome and America again
The last years.

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