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Victorian Values Gordon Marsden

Victorian Values By Gordon Marsden

Victorian Values by Gordon Marsden


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A portrait of Victorian society and culture, this text presents aspects of the age through profiles of pioneering figures. It covers attitudes to a range of issues from education, health and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity.

Victorian Values Summary

Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth Century Society by Gordon Marsden

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.




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'Victorian Values fits the bill very nicely. it is compact, cheap and cheerful and contains [20] splendid essays covering a wide spectrum of Victorian society'

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Table of Contents

Foreword Asa Briggs.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction Gordon Marsden.
2. 'Kindness and Reason': William Lovett and Education,Brian Harrison.
3. 'Cultivated Capital': Patronage and Art in Nineteenth-Century Manchester and Leeds, Janet Wolff and Caroline Arscott.
4. Dickens and his Readers, Philip Collins.
5. Pugin and the Medieval Dream, Nigel Yates.
6. New men? The Bourgeois Cult of Home, John Tosh.
7. Titus Salt: Enlightened Entrepreneur, Ian Campbell Bradley.
8. Samuel Smiles: The Gospel of Self-Help, Asa Briggs.
9. Building Bridges: George Godwin and Architectural Journalism,Robert Thorne.
10. Gladstonian Finance, H C G Matthew.
11. Ministering Angels: Victorian Ladies and Nursing Reform, Anne Summers.
12. Josephine Butler: Feminism's Neglected Pioneer,Trevor Fisher.
13. Joseph Chamberlain and the Municipal Ideal, Derek Fraser.
14. Herbert Spencer and 'Inevitable' Progress, Robert M Young.
15.Stewart Headlam and the Christian Socialists,Edward Norman.
16. William Morris: Art and Idealism, Charles Harvey and Jon Press.
17. Mary Kingsley and West Africa, Dea Birkett.
18. Attic Attitudes: Leighton and Aesthetic Philosophy, Stephen Jones.
19. 'Commanding the Heart': Edward Carpenter and Friends, Sheila Rowbotham.
20. The Quest for Englishness, Paul Rich.
21. Diamonds are Forever? Kipling's Imperialism.
Index

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CIN0582292891G
9780582292895
0582292891
Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth Century Society by Gordon Marsden
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1998-07-20
304
N/A
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