Fancies Versus Fads

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-916809-25-3
Verlag: ERIS

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 108 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 230 g

Reihe: Cletham Classics

In the essays collected in Fancies versus Fads, G. K. Chesterton positions himself as an assailant of “the nonsense of the world”: a sworn enemy of fashionable doctrines and the excesses into which they lead their adherents. While sometimes dismissed as a fogeyish reactionary—an image to which he at times gleefully plays up—Chesterton emerges from these essays as a witty and perceptive critic possessed of a profound generosity of spirit. Ranging in its preoccupations from psychoanalysis and the temperance movement to child-rearing and free verse, Fancies versus Fads is a brilliant introduction to one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chesterton, G. K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Über Autor(innen)

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was a novelist and critic who wrote influentially on political, theological, and literary topics. He is perhaps best known for his widely read Father Brown short stories.