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Kilvert's World of Wonders : Growing up in Mid-Victorian England.
Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diari...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
Lutterworth Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringin. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780718841775 0718841778 9780718841782 0718841786 |