Victorian People and Ideas A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature

Name: Victorian People and Ideas A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature
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ISBN: 9780393093766

ISBN-10: 039309376X

ISBN-13: 9780393093766

Edition: 1973

Authors: Richard D. Altick

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The reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this important study, Richard D. Altick moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Carlyle and Dickens, Tennyson and Arnold were daily struggling to solve. And the issues were many: the revolution in class structure and class attitudes; the rise of utilitarianism and the evangelical spirit; the crisis in religion, including the Oxford movement and Darwinism; the democratization of culture; the place of art and the artist in an industrial, bourgeois society; the effects of industrialism, especially on the way people live. Altick…

Book details

List price: $18.50
Copyright year: 1973
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/1974
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.40" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Richard D. Altick was Regents' Professor of English at Ohio State University. Among his numerous previously published works are The Scholar Adventurers, The English Common Reader, and Victorian People and Ideas.



Preface



The Longest Reign (1837-1901)



The Victorians: Actors and Audience



The Spirit of the Age: Time, Place, and Change



The Utilitarian Spirit



The Evangelical Temper



Religious Movements and Crises



Democracy, Industry, and Culture



The Nature of Art and Its Place in Society



Progress of a Reputation


Chronology


Sources of Quotations from Modern Books


Other Books to Read


Index