‘The blissful change’
Thomson’s Calvinist Scepticism in the Face of the Nineteenth Century Radical Progressive Agenda
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https://doi.org/10.36399/GroundingsUG.3.261Keywords:
James B.V. Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, Poetry, Moral, Moral Attidudes, Victorian Britain, Satire, CalvinismAbstract
This article traces the manifold satirical and poetic manifestations of James B.V. Thomson’s questioning and sceptical attitude towards the progressivist agenda of the Victorian Britain. It presents both Thomson’s proudly blazoned ‘healthy scepticism’ from his biting satirical works, and the dark, contradictory spirit of Thomson’s most accomplished poetical work, The City of Dreadful Night , as two faces of the same moral attitude.
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