The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845

ISBN-13: 9781009268851 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Michael (University of Southampton) Wheeler

Opis

Michael Wheeler is a leading authority on the Victorian age. His exploration of 1845 transforms our understanding of the period.

Recenzje

'In this enthralling study, Wheeler argues that it was in 'the crucible of 1845' that Victorian England came to define itself … Reading Wheeler's chapter on … John Henry Newman - so well does he tell the familiar story - it is as if we are hearing it for the first time.' John Pridmore, Church Times

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Public Scandals: 1. Opening Mazzini's mail: Sir James Graham and the Post Office; 2. The railway juggernaut: Delane, Dickens and the press; 3. Poor law bastille: the Andover workhouse scandal; Part II. Private Lives: 4. Love by post: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning; 5. Letters from the Continent: Ruskin in Italy; 6. Letters of the living and the dead: Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle; Part III. Oxford Movements: 7. Established church in crisis: William George Ward and the Oxford Movement; 8. A dangerous correspondence: Newman on the road to Rome; Part IV. Irish Questions: 9. Educating papist priests: Gladstone and the Maynooth grant; 10. From our own Commissioner: Daniel O'Connell and The Times; 11. A prime minister resigns: Peel and the Corn Laws; Afterword.