Odin Dekkers
Ashgate
Hardback
292
1998
This book is a study of the life of one of the most erudite and prolific critics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Scotsman John Mackinnon Robertson (1856-1933) rationalist and enemy of religion to the core published over one hundred books and thousands of articles in fields as diverse as sociology economics history anthropology Biblical criticism and literary criticism. This once widely-known (and feared!) author was all too quickly forgotten after his death and his work is now seldom read. The aim of this book is to demonstrate that Robertson?s writings and in particular his acute and powerful literary criticism - much respected by T S Eliot - have not lost their relevance for late twentieth-century readers.
Ashgate
Hardback
292
1998
This book is a study of the life of one of the most erudite and prolific critics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Scotsman John Mackinnon Robertson (1856-1933) rationalist and enemy of religion to the core published over one hundred books and thousands of articles in fields as diverse as sociology economics history anthropology Biblical criticism and literary criticism. This once widely-known (and feared!) author was all too quickly forgotten after his death and his work is now seldom read. The aim of this book is to demonstrate that Robertson?s writings and in particular his acute and powerful literary criticism - much respected by T S Eliot - have not lost their relevance for late twentieth-century readers.