The spirit of the age : Victorian essays /

None of the stereotypes of Victorian England--narrow-minded, inhibited, moralistic, complacent--prepares us for the vitality, variety, and above all extraordinary quality of intellectual life displayed in this volume of essays. Selected and annotated by Gertrude Himmelfarb, a distinguished historian...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Himmelfarb, Gertrude (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2007.
Temas:
1800-1899
English essays > 19th century.
Authors, English > 19th century > Political and social views.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > General.
Authors, English > Political and social views
Civilization
English essays
Intellectual life
Écrivains anglais > Pensée politique et sociale > 19e siècle.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century > Sources.
Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century > Sources.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle > Sources.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 19e siècle > Sources.
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Angleterre (GB) > Civilisation > 19e siècle.
English essays > 19th century
Geschichte > 1837-1901
essays.
Essays
Sources
Essays.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Spirit of the Age
  • The essay as genre
  • "Signs of the Times" (1829) / Thomas Carlyle
  • "The Spirit of the Age" (1831) / John Stuart Mill
  • "Civil Disabilities of the Jews" (1831) / T.B. Macaulay
  • "The Snobs of England, by One of Themselves" (1846-47) / W.M. Thackeray
  • "Demoralization and Total Abstinence" (1849) / Charles Dickens
  • "Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming" (1855) / George Eliot
  • "Dull Government," "Average Government," and "Thinking Government" (1856) / Walter Bagehot
  • "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" (1859) / John Stuart Mill
  • "The Roots of Honour" (1860) / John Ruskin
  • "General Answer to Mr. Kingsley" (1864) / John Henry Newman
  • "Culture and its Enemies" (1857) / Matthew Arnold
  • "The History of Freedom in Antiquity" (1877) / John E.E.D. Acton
  • "The Future of Englishwomen: A Reply" (1878) / Millicent Garrett Fawcett
  • "'Robert Elsmere': The Battle of Belief" (1888) / W.E. Gladstone
  • "Pages from a Work-Girl's Diary" (1888) / Beatrice Webb
  • "The Soul of Man under Socialism" (1891) / Oscar Wilde
  • "Evolution and Ethics" (1893) / T.H. Huxley.

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