The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830 - 1890

ISBN-13: 9781138140752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 336 str.

Robin Gilmour

Opis

This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated Victorian literature.

Spis treści

List of Plates  Acknowledgements  Preface  Introduction  1. The Sense of Time and the Uses of History  2. Religion- Reform, Rejection, Reconstruction  3. Science- Re-Imagining the Universe  4. The Life of Ideas and the Culture of Politics  5. The Arts in an Industrial Age  Postscript  Chronology  General Bibliographers  Individual Authors  Index

O autorze

Robin Gilmour