Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth Century Society - Couverture souple

Marsden, Gordon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0582036852 ISBN 13 : 9780582036857

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 1990

Synopsis

(an absorbing portrait of Victorian society and culture, presenting different aspects of the age through profiles (originally published in History Today Magazine) of representative or pioneering figures -- among them Dickens, Samuel Smiles, Pugin, Mary Kingsly, Lord Leighton and Joseph Chamberlain. New essays have been added to the Second Edition, examining the bourgeois cult of home, Josephine Butler, William Morris and Kipling's imperialism. This collection of essays illuminates Victorian attitudes on a range of issues from education, health, and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity)

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

'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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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0582036852
• ISBN 13: 9780582036857
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible