...-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected] ABSTRACT This article focuses on G. K. Chesterton’s reading...

... and Co Jerome Zangwill Israel First World War Punch Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club The Sayers Sayers Dorothy exclusivity women Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes G. K. Chesterton Dorothy Sayers Detective fiction Friendship Secret societies This chapter features...

... Henry James Joseph Conrad G K Chesterton Robert Louis Stevenson Terror It's pathological, it's always there – the subterranean world, where fantasies and violent urges every now and again come to the surface disguised as ideas. Martin Amis, The Independent (29 January 2008) As we...

... as ‘middlebrow’ (partly due to their successful journalistic careers) such as G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. Blatchford Robert Booth Howard J Chambers Jessie Clarion Darwin Charles Haeckel Ernst Huxley T H Lawrence Emily Nottingham Reid Reverend Robert Renan Ernest Robertson J M socialism...

...This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's works that were published during World War I. It first considers Chesterton's return to his propaganda work following a bout with illness before turning to a discussion of his writings, including The Crimes of England (1915...

...This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's works that he published after his conversion to Catholicism, including The Man who Knew too Much (1922), Fancies versus Fads (1923), St Francis of Assisi (1923), Tales of the Long Bow...

...This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's works that he published in the late 1920s, including The Catholic Church and Conversion (1926), which explores Catholicism's transformation into a positively new religion, and The Return of Don Quixote (1927). The chapter...

...This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's early days based on his posthumously published Autobiography (1936). It begins with Chesterton's family background and his childhood in Kensington, London, where he was born. It then considers the influence Chesterton's father had on his...

...This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's marriage to Frances Blogg on June 28, 1901 at St Mary Abbots Church in Kensington, London, and his rise to fame as a writer. It first provides a background on the Chesterton-Blogg wedding before turning to a discussion of Chesterton's first book of prose...

...This chapter focuses on the controversy between G. K. Chesterton and Robert Blatchford regarding Christianity. In March 1903 in the Clarion, Blatchford challenged Christians to respond to his attack on Christianity following a review of a reprint of an anti-Christian polemic...

...This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's 1906 book Charles Dickens, a tribute to Charles Dickens. It first considers Chesterton's stint as writer of the “Our Notebook” column in the Illustrated London News that began in the autumn of 1905 before discussing his...

...This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's book The Victorian Age in Literature, published in 1913, and his illness due to heart complications. It first considers the libel suit filed by William Lever against Chesterton and his brother Cecil before turning to The Victorian...

...This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's travel to America in 1921 with his wife Frances and his conversion to Catholicism a year later. It first considers Chesterton's reaction to Herbert Samuel's appointment in June 1920 as High Commissioner in Palestine and the financial difficulties...

... Scottish Council for Research and Educational and Population Investigation Sun Benwen Bolshevism genetics Jennings Herbert Lamarck Jean Baptiste Penrose Lionel Punnett Reginald Santamarina Rafael Stalin Josef G. K. Chesterton eugenics Francis Galton intelligence race segregation Nothing...

... of Inequality Rousseau Elshtain Jean Bethke Marcuse Herbert mastery physicality Wolin Sheldon G. K. Chesterton Du Bois Heidegger Herodotus Montaigne theory Tocqueville Travel For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers. —1 chronicles 29:15...

...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 biography argues...

...This book explores at length the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These parallel but mostly independent movements include writers such as Charles Péguy, Paul Claudel, J. K. Huysmans, Gerard Manley Hopkins, G. K. Chesterton...

...This book is a comparative study of the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These parallel but mostly independent movements include writers such as Charles Péguy, Paul Claudel, J. K. Huysmans, Gerard Manley Hopkins, G. K. Chesterton...

...This chapter focuses on the publication of G. K. Chesterton's early works. It begins with Chesterton's account of the role played by Ernest Hodder Williams, a fellow student and friend at University College, in his change of intended career from art to literature. It then considers Chesterton's...

...This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's views on orthodox Christianity. It first considers the Chestertons' stay at a rented house at Rye in Sussex, next door to Lamb House, the mansion where Henry James once lived. It then turns to the death of Frances Chesterton's brother that made her...