While Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who has little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote, de la Mothe challenges this judgment, reassessing Snow's place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and writingsmost notably his Strangers and Brothers sequence of novels and his provocative thesis in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolutionreflect a persistent struggle with the nature of modernity. They manifest Snow's belief that science and technology were at the center of modern life.
While Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who has little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote, de la Mothe challenges this judgment, reassessing Snow's place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and writingsmost notably his Strangers and Brothers sequence of novels and his provocative thesis in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolutionreflect a persistent struggle with the nature of modernity. They manifest Snow's belief that science and technology were at the center of modern life.
C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity
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ISBN-13: | 9780292729162 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 07/01/1992 |
Pages: | 263 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) |