ISBN:
0199253455
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 267 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain : Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew
DDC:
306.20941/09034
Keywords:
Great Britain ; Civilization ; 19th century
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Great Britain ; Politics and government ; 1837-1901
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Electronic books
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Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901
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Great Britain Civilization 19th century
Abstract:
How and why should we study Victorian Britain? The answer to this question used to be quite straightforward. It was the Victorian contribution to modern politics which stood out above all else. Today we are not so sure. This book suggest that politics are still central, but must be more broadly construed, as a pervasive part of Victorian culture as a whole. - ;In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious or self-evidently important subject. Facing up to this challenge, the historians who ha
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; 1. A Brief Word on 'Politics' and 'Culture'; I; 2. Colin Matthew (1941-1999); 3. Colin Matthew: A Memoir; 4. Colin Matthew: A Bibliography; II; 5. Gladstone and Peel; 6. Gladstone and a Liberal Theory of International Relations; 7. The Enfranchisement of the Urban Poor in Late-Victorian Britain; 8. The Defection of the Middle Class: The Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party, and the 1874 Election; 9. Liberal Passions: Reason and Emotion in Late- and Post-Victorian Liberal Thought; III; 10. The Church of England and Women's Higher Education, c.1840-1914
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Protestant Histories: James Anthony Froude, Partisanship and National Identity12. Roman Candles: Catholic Converts among Authors in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain; 13. Scenes from Professional Life: Medicine, Moral Conduct, and Interconnectedness in Middlemarch; 14. Victorian Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes; Index; C; G; L; M; S; W; Y
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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