Old Gods Falling

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OLD GODS FALLING BY MALCOLM ELWIN By the same THE PLAYGOERS HANDBOOK RESTORATION DRAMA CHARLES A BIOGRAPHY A PERSONALITY VICTORIAN WALLFLOWERS OLD GODS FALLING CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE JUBILEE ENGLAND OF 1887 i. The Jubilee classes of the invention of the new manners and conventions in life and the heyday of Humbug 2. Literature in 1887: Charles Reades bid for freedom of the literary test of an epoch of transition. 3. The the Tellow Oscar the circulating unthinking the struggle for freedom of the old gods falling. 4, What might have been a Preface. CHAPTER TWO GEORGE The Comedy of a Card i. His sex his legend. 2. Birth and sensuality in art Paris of gives up art for the bestial literary Zola. 3. A Modern craving for A Mummers storm in sixshilling attack on circulating A Drama in Muslin and A Mere the Confessions of a Toung notoriety Zola social Euphorion in Texas. CHAPTER THREE GEORGE Tragedy or Farce? i. brother discards aesthetic dramatic turns art Impressions and Vain Modern a real Craigie. 2. Esther its reception and Moore a social his disastrous Celibates a writing Evelyn his end as a literary lion. 3. Irelands national Moore about his last phase as a Grand Old Man of Genius, 4 Summary of Moores achievement, ETC.