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Yeast; A Problem

By Charles Kingsley

2020-02-13 21:24:20

Yeast: A Problem (1848) was the first novel by the Victorian social and religious controversialist Charles Kingsley. Motivated by his strong convictions as a Christian Socialist Kingsley wrote Yeast as an attack on Roman Catholicism and the Oxford M ... Read more
Yeast: A Problem (1848) was the first novel by the Victorian social and religious controversialist Charles Kingsley. Motivated by his strong convictions as a Christian Socialist Kingsley wrote Yeast as an attack on Roman Catholicism and the Oxford Movement, on celibacy, the game laws, bad landlords and bad sanitation, and on the whole social system insofar as it kept England’s agricultural labourer class in poverty. The title was intended to suggest the "ferment of new ideas".Yeast was influenced by the works of the philosopher Thomas Carlyle, and by Henry Brooke's novel The Fool of Quality. Less

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File size264.521 KB
Print pages296
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-02-17
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780554232782
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Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated w...

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