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Title The spirit of the age : Victorian essays / edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2007
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Contents The Spirit of the Age -- The essay as genre -- "Signs of the Times" (1829) / Thomas Carlyle -- "The Spirit of the Age" (1831) / John Stuart Mill -- "Civil Disabilities of the Jews" (1831) / T.B. Macaulay -- "The Snobs of England, by One of Themselves" (1846-47) / W.M. Thackeray -- "Demoralization and Total Abstinence" (1849) / Charles Dickens -- "Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming" (1855) / George Eliot -- "Dull Government," "Average Government," and "Thinking Government" (1856) / Walter Bagehot -- "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" (1859) / John Stuart Mill -- "The Roots of Honour" (1860) / John Ruskin -- "General Answer to Mr. Kingsley" (1864) / John Henry Newman -- "Culture and its Enemies" (1857) / Matthew Arnold -- "The History of Freedom in Antiquity" (1877) / John E.E.D. Acton -- "The Future of Englishwomen: A Reply" (1878) / Millicent Garrett Fawcett -- "'Robert Elsmere': The Battle of Belief" (1888) / W.E. Gladstone -- "Pages from a Work-Girl's Diary" (1888) / Beatrice Webb -- "The Soul of Man under Socialism" (1891) / Oscar Wilde -- "Evolution and Ethics" (1893) / T.H. Huxley
Summary 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
Analysis English essays 19th century
Geschichte 1837-1901
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject English essays -- 19th century.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Political and social views.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General.
Authors, English -- Political and social views
Civilization
English essays
Intellectual life
Écrivains anglais -- Pensée politique et sociale -- 19e siècle.
English essays -- 19th century
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Sources
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Sources
Subject Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 19e siècle.
Angleterre (GB) -- Civilisation -- 19e siècle.
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
Sources
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Himmelfarb, Gertrude, editor
LC no. 2007925376
ISBN 9780300150247
0300150245
0300123302
9780300123302