Victorian People and IdeasLife in the Victorian period, focusing on the social, religious, scientific, and artistic movements that characterized the age. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 36
Page 3
... literary taste which had turned in the direction of Wordsworth and , among the percipient , toward Alfred Ten- nyson after his Poems of 1842. Byron's personality and career were alien to a moral climate in which rectitude , chastity ...
... literary taste which had turned in the direction of Wordsworth and , among the percipient , toward Alfred Ten- nyson after his Poems of 1842. Byron's personality and career were alien to a moral climate in which rectitude , chastity ...
Page 62
... literary classics such as Scott's romances ; broadsides report- ing sensational news events such as fires , murders , and nat- ural calamities ; cheap Sunday newspapers enlivened with radical politics and extensive police reports . The ...
... literary classics such as Scott's romances ; broadsides report- ing sensational news events such as fires , murders , and nat- ural calamities ; cheap Sunday newspapers enlivened with radical politics and extensive police reports . The ...
Page 322
... literary bearings . Two important books deal explicitly and comprehensively with the Victorian spirit as manifested in literature : J. H. Buckley's The Victorian Temper : A Study in Literary Culture ( 1951 ) , especially valuable for ...
... literary bearings . Two important books deal explicitly and comprehensively with the Victorian spirit as manifested in literature : J. H. Buckley's The Victorian Temper : A Study in Literary Culture ( 1951 ) , especially valuable for ...
Contents
THE LONGEST REIGN 18371901 | 1 |
ACTORS AND AUDIENCE | 17 |
The Gentry and the Middle Class | 25 |
Copyright | |
13 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian ... Richard Daniel Altick No preview available - 1973 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic Arnold artist authority beauty became beginning believe Benthamite better called Carlyle century Chapter Christian Church common contemporary criticism culture decades Dickens early economic effect England English Evangelical existence experience fact factory faith fiction force founded George hand House human idea important individual industrial institutions intellectual interest labor late later least less liberal literary literature living London mass material matter means ment middle class Mill mind moral movement nature never novels Origin Oxford period Poems poet poetry political popular practical present progress published radical readers reason Reform religion religious remained respect response result romantic Ruskin schools sense served social society spirit subjects thing thought tion towns turned universe values Victorian whole women workers