The Mysteries of Identity: Theme in Modern Literature - Hardcover

Robert Langbaum ambitiously tackles the immense and highly relevant subject of identity as a theme in modern literature. The result is intellectual history and revealing literary criticism of a high order, explicating change attitudes toward the problem during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specifically in the works of those who wrote significantly about it: Wordsworth, Arnold, Eliot, Beckett, and especially Yeats and Lawrence.