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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Toman, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Lutterworth Press, 2013.
Temas:
Kilvert, Robert Francis, > 1840-1879 > Diaries.
Kilvert, Robert Francis, > 1840-1879.
Church of England > Clergy > Biography.
Church of England > Clergé > Biographies.
Church of England.
1800-1899
Families > England > History > 19th century > Sources.
Social change > England > History > 19th century > Sources.
Familles > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
RELIGION > Christianity > Anglican.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
Clergy.
Families.
Social change.
Social conditions.
England > Social conditions > 19th century > Sources.
Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle > Sources.
England.
Biographies.
Diaries.
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover; Kilvert's World of Wonders; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue
  • 'Some Great Change Must Take Place'; Chapter 1. Piety, Progress and Print: Kilvert's Background; Chapter 2. Nature's Classroom; Chapter 3. Kilvert the Naturalist; Chapter 4. Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways; Chapter 5. Kilvert and Science and Technology; Chapter 6. Natural Law and the Mind; Chapter 7. Kilvert and Tyndall; Chapter 8. Miracles and Wonders; Chapter 9. Kilvert and Teaching; Chapter 10. Museums and Picture Galleries; Chapter 11. The Christian Geographer.
  • Chapter 12. 'Plunging into Ancient Chaos': Kilvert and EvolutionReferences; Select Bibliography; Back cover.

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