Abstract
Explores the influence of German Idealist philosophy, specifically Nietzsche and Hegel, in the work of the 20th century Scottish writer David Lindsay (1876-1945), now best-known for his novel A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) with primary attention to the role and character of symbolic imagery in Lindsay's stories, focusing on his novels Sphinx (1923) and Devil’s Tor (1932), and countering the broadly gnostic worldview sometimes attributed to him.
Recommended Citation
Wills, Eric
(2021)
"David Lindsay and the Shape of Inner Being,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 47:
Iss.
1, 122–135.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol47/iss1/10