Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy. The Making of GKC 1874–1908. By William Oddie
William Oddie’s highly readable ‘intellectual biography’, which makes full use of the Chesterton papers in the British Library, covers what he sees as the important half of the writer’s life, and is as much a spiritual as an intellectual biography, since the thesis is that by the time of Orthodoxy (...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Literature and theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 474-477 |
| Review of: | Chesterton and the romance of Orthodoxy (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008) (Murdoch, Brian)
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| Summary: | William Oddie’s highly readable ‘intellectual biography’, which makes full use of the Chesterton papers in the British Library, covers what he sees as the important half of the writer’s life, and is as much a spiritual as an intellectual biography, since the thesis is that by the time of Orthodoxy (from which the title is taken) in 1908, Chesterton’s role as a (Roman) Catholic apologist was pretty well settled, although he did not actually join the Church until 1922. Oddie argues, too, that Chesterton’s anti-modernism emerged separately from his move towards Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frp050 |