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C.P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity

By John de la Mothe

Book information

Publisher
Mcgill Queens University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0773509143, 9780773509146
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18145339 bytes)
Pages
264\264
Time added
2015-02-06 22:17:52

Description

Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who had little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote. John de la Mothe, however, convincingly challenges this analysis with an insightful reassessment of Snow's place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and writings reflect a persistent struggle with the nature of modernity. This is most notable, de la Mothe reveals, in the Strangers and Brothers sequence of novels and the provocative thesis in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. These works, along with the body of Snow's work and the multiplicity of his life, manifest Snow's belief that science and technology are at the centre of modern life.

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