The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830-1890This volume examines Victorian historiography, religion, science and politics in order to establish the social and institutional framework in which intellectual and cultural life operated. It centres on the idea of "time-hauntedness" as a defining feature of middle-class identity. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The climate of reform | 8 |
The parvenu accepted | 14 |
Copyright | |
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