Sacred lambencies and thin crusts: Scottish writers, industrialisation and anomie, 1785–1914

Cultural Values 3 (2):196-212 (1999)
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You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass’... This essay is a biography of this traumatic Edwrdian image, expressed in J. G. Fraser and H. G. Wells as well as in John Buchan's first thriller, The Power‐House of 1913. It traces the creer of the volcanic metaphor, particularly eruptive in Scotland, beyond Carlyle's French Revolution to the scientific controversies of the Enlightenment.

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