Labyrinths of deceit : : culture, modernity and identity in the nineteenth century / / Richard J. Walker.

• Superior document: Liverpool English texts and studies ; 44
• VerfasserIn: Walker, Richard J., 1967-
• Place / Publishing House: Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Liverpool English texts and studies ; 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 339 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those currents in order to present an alternative history of nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works of the period, Walker explores the crisis of identity that beset nineteenth-century thinkers and how that crisis revealed itself in portrayals of addiction, split personalities, and religious mania. Victorian England will never look the same.