From the 1820s through the 1840s, debate raged over what Thomas Carlyle famously termed the Condition of England Question. While much of the debate focused on how to remedy the material sufferings of the rural and urban working classes, for three writers in particular--William Cobbett, Thomas Carlyle, and Benjamin Disraeli--the times were marked by an even more pervasive crisis that threatened not only the material lives of workers, but also the very stability of meaning itself. At the root of this crisis lay industrial capitalism, and its impact was not only economic, but also cultural,...
From the 1820s through the 1840s, debate raged over what Thomas Carlyle famously termed the Condition of England Question. While much of the debate fo...
Although most people think "Generation X" is a recently coined label for the post Baby Boom generation, since the early 1950s the phrase has signified a seemingly identity-less group of young people trying to define themselves within an uncertain, even hostile world. GenXegesis: Essays on Alternative Youth (Sub)Culture is the first collection of critical essays on Generation X. Resituating the term in its neglected (sub)cultural context, the contributors offer a critical assessment of the "Generation X" phenomenon and its relation to the fashioning of differing identities within...
Although most people think "Generation X" is a recently coined label for the post Baby Boom generation, since the early 1950s the phrase has signified...
