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THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE
VICTORIAN ESSAYS |
| By: |
Gertrude Himmelfarb (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£30.00 |
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£27.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300151381 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300151381 |
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| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2009 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Contains essays that address a wide range of subjects, including religion, politics, history, science, art, socialism, and feminism, by eminent figures of the Victorian era. This title reflects what the author terms 'the spirit of the age', one that she characterises as contentious as well as earnest, given to high aspirations and convictions. |
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None of the stereotypes of Victorian England-narrow-minded, inhibited, moralistic, complacent-prepares us for the vitality, variety, and above all extraordinary quality of intellectual life displayed in this volume of essays. Selected and annotated by Gertrude Himmelfarb, a distinguished historian of Victorian thought, the writings address a wide range of subjects-religion, politics, history, science, art, socialism, and feminism-by eminent figures of the era, including Carlyle, Mill, Macaulay, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, Newman, Arnold, and Wilde. The selections reflect what Himmelfarb terms "the spirit of the age"-contentious as well as earnest, given to high aspirations and convictions, and at the same time subject to deep anxieties and doubts. The Victorians, undisputed masters of the long, serious essay, found the genre congenial to the expression of their most compelling and provocative views. This volume offers a representative sampling of essays from the early, middle, and late Victorian periods, each accompanied by an introductory note.Himmelfarb also introduces the volume with two enlightening essays, one on the evolving spirit of the age, and the other on the essay as a genre and on the important periodicals that attracted such a large and engaged audience. |
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US |
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Yale University Press |
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