The 19 th century could be considered the golden age of literature. The sheer number of novels published during this time is staggering. What’s more, they have started to branch out and cover ...

including the works of Neo-Platonists and books on Confucianism. Upon resettling in Concord, Massachusetts, he wove these diverse threads into the philosophical tradition known as American ...

In George Steiner’s first book, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, Steiner promotes the theory that the two great literary traditions of the 19th century – the golden age of the genre – had nowhere left ...