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Arthur Kenneth Chesterton, Cousin Of G. K. Chesterton, Was A Leading Member Of Oswald Mosley's British Union Of Fascists Who Later Became The First Leader Of The National Front. Chesterton's Life And Career Spanned The Inter- And Post-war Period. He Grew Up In South Africa, Fought In The First World War And By The Age Of 21 Had Begun To Experience A Powerful Sense Of Disillusionment With The Peace, Missing The Classless Comradeship And Shared Sense Of Purpose Of The Trenches And Finding His Own 'colonial Outsider' Mentality With Its Idealized Vision Of England Increasingly At Odds With Postwar British Society. As A Literary Critic And The Editor Of A Provincial Newspaper In The 1920s, Chesterton's Sense Of Cultural Despair Deepened And Reading Classic Works Of English Literature Became A Source Of Escape And A Further Opportunity To Lose Himself In Fantasies Of An Older, Better England. By 1933, Chesterton Had Discovered Fascism.--book Jacket. David Baker's New Biography Explores The Powerful Historical, Social And Intellectual Background To Chesterton's Life And Career. He Places Chesterton In The Wider Context Of British Fascism To Explore The Question Of Why Fascist Ideology Pro

Author

Brafnis Coombix

Publisher

London ; New York: Tauris Academic Studies

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781860640735

Subjects

Political Science, History, Biography

Updated

2026-03-24