Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886

ISBN-13: 9780521833899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 336 str.

M. J. D. Roberts; Margot C. Finn; Keith Wrightson

Opis

Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance, charity, cruelty prevention and "social purity" advocates promoted their causes through mobilization of citizen volunteer support. M.J.D. Roberts explores the world of these volunteer networks--their concerns, patterns of recruitment, methods of operation, and responses aroused--to provide an accessible period survey of moral reform.

Recenzje

"This is an extremly fine and thoughtful book, based on an impressive range of sources...It is bursting wiht ideas and information based on a colossal amount of reading and research." Victorian Studies Susan Mumm, The Open University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Moral reform in the 1780s: the making of an agenda; 2. 'The best means of national safety': Moral reform in wartime, 1795–1815; 3. Taming the masses, 1815–34; 4. From social control to self-control, 1834–57; 5. Moral individualism: the renewal and reappraisal of an ideal, 1857–80; 6. The late Victorian crisis of moral reform: the 1880s and after.