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The spirit of the age : Victorian essays

Title
The spirit of the age : Victorian essays / edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
Description
vi, 327 p.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The Spirit of the Age -- The essay as genre -- Early Victorian England -- "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 -- Mid-Victorian England -- "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 -- Late Victorian England -- "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.
Call Number
JFE 08-7092
ISBN
  • 9780300123302 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0300123302 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007925376
OCLC
171111099
Title
The spirit of the age : Victorian essays / edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
Research Call Number
JFE 08-7092
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