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The Making Of Victorian Values

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Author : Ben Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-03-15

The Making Of Victorian Values written by Ben Wilson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-15 with History categories.

Ben Wilson's The Making of Victorian Values is the history of an era rather like our own-a time when dissenters and rebels were hemmed in by conformists and hardheaded authoritarians, a time when a nation on the eve of global domination fretted about its future. It was, however, a period when those who argued that a British empire would be a disaster for liberty were eventually squashed by imperialists, just as those who railed against mindless materialism were in the end rolled over by industrialists and the promoters of luxury goods. The Making of Victorian Values reveals an era when people were obsessed with the need to appear authentic, and yet forever had doubts about who was and who wasn't-concerns familiar to the "me" age we know so well. Wilson begins with the libertine spirit inspired by Byron, Shelley, and the Romantics; he ends with the rise and eventual victory of stolid middle-class values. The result is a radical tour de force, a brilliant reworking of the pre-Victorian age. Once portrayed by Paul Johnson in his bestselling The Birth of the Modern as the years when virtue finally trumped corruption, Wilson reveals a far more compelling story-and a more engrossing and scandalous one, too. It is a story about hypochondriacs and cranks, killjoys and dandies, rakes and priests, advocates of free-speech and those against it-people who were made awe struck by Britain's emerging role as the economic and political powerhouse of the world, but who were also deeply anxious about the responsibilities a vast empire might require. Wilson is heir to the great radical historians of the twentieth century, E. J. Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson, among them. He brushes aside scholarly politesse and refuses to join in unnecessary academic point-settling, and his invigorating literary abilities will win many admirers who would otherwise know this history only through the works of nineteenth-century fiction.

The Making Of Victorian Values

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language : en
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Release Date : 2007

The Making Of Victorian Values written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Great Britain categories.

How To Do Things With Books In Victorian Britain

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Author : Leah Price
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012

How To Do Things With Books In Victorian Britain written by Leah Price and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.

This work asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. The text explores when the coffee-table book became an object of scorn, and why law courts forbade witnesses to kiss the Bible.

The Making Of Victorian Values

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Author : Ben Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007

The Making Of Victorian Values written by Ben Wilson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

A history of pre-Victorian England cites the contributions of Romantic authors, profiles the role of imperialism, and traces Britain's influence as an economic and political power, likening elements of the period to those of today's world.

Victorian Values

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Author : Gordon Marsden
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-25

Victorian Values written by Gordon Marsden and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with History categories.

Victorian Values is an absorbing portrait of Victorian society and culture, presenting different aspects of the age through profiles of representative or pioneering figures - among them Dickens, Pugin, Mary Kingsley, Lord Leighton, Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. It illuminates Victorian attitudes to a range of issues from education, health and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity. Widely used and enjoyed by students, teachers and general readers alike, it has now been extended with four new essays and the Introduction, comparing the Victorian age with our own, has been updated and rewritten.

The Making And Shaping Of The Victorian Teacher

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Author : M. Larsen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-07-12

The Making And Shaping Of The Victorian Teacher written by M. Larsen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-12 with History categories.

Providing comparative and international contexts to understand the history of the making of the teacher in Victorian England, this is a compelling account of the development during this time of teacher training, inspections and certification - reforms which shaped the good teacher as a modern and moral individual.

Victorians And The Case For Charity

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Author : Marilyn D. Button
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-10-18

Victorians And The Case For Charity written by Marilyn D. Button and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with History categories.

This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and painful presence. Each essay examines a different initiative to help the poor. Taking an historical tack, the essayists begin with the royal perspective and move into the responses of Church of England members, Evangelicals, and Roman Catholics; the social engagement of the literati is discussed as well. This collection reflects the real, monetary, spiritual and emotional investments of individuals, public institutions, private charities, and religious groups who struggled to address the needs of the poor.

In Search Of Victorian Values

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Author : Eric M. Sigsworth
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1988

In Search Of Victorian Values written by Eric M. Sigsworth and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Social Science categories.

The Victorians

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Author : John Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-10-27

The Victorians written by John Gardiner and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-27 with History categories.

A major study of changing attitudes to the Victorians, from Lytton Strachey to the present day. >

Histories Of Sexuality

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Author : Stephen Garton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05

Histories Of Sexuality written by Stephen Garton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with History categories.

A history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears that academics are capable of ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) can enlighten and, occasionally, even delight. At their best such histories offer a means of investigating the clash of instinct and culture — how seemingly timeless and natural behaviours shape and are in turn shaped by history. Sexual practices may persist through time but history also illuminates how sex and sexuality are surprisingly mutable. This capacity of history to unsettle and surprise is evident in many of the works discussed here. In less than 40 years the history of sexuality, as a definable area of scholarly enterprise, has grown from a few works describing past attitudes and behaviours into an enormously rich field that sustains its own journal, a number of monograph series and countless seminars, conferences, articles and books. Moreover, this field has moved well beyond accounts of exotic ideas and strange obsessions to embrace sophisticated analyses of such issues as subjectivity, identity, power, desire, gender and embodiment. Through these studies we now have a much more detailed account of past sexual ideas, beliefs, practices, fantasies and struggles.