| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 ''Kindness and Reason'': William Lovett and Education; 3 ''Cultivated Capital'': Patronage and Art in Nineteenth-Century Manchester and Leeds; 4 Dickens and his Readers; 5 Pugin and the Medieval Dream; 6 New Men? The Bourgeois Cult of Home; 7 Titus Salt: Enlightened Entrepreneur; 8 Samuel Smiles: The Gospel of Self-Help; 9 Building Bridges: George Godwin and Architectural Journalism; 10 Gladstonian Finance |
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11 Ministering Angels: Victorian Ladies and Nursing Reform12 Josephine Butler: Feminism''s Neglected Pioneer; 13 Joseph Chamberlain and the Municipal Ideal; 14 Herbert Spencer and ''Inevitable'' Progress; 15 Stewart Headlam and the Christian Socialists; 16 William Morris: Art and Idealism; 17 Mary Kingsley and West Africa; 18 Attic Attitudes: Leighton and Aesthetic Philosophy; 19 ''Commanding the Heart'': Edward Carpenter and Friends; 20 The Quest for Englishness; 21 Diamonds are Forever? Kipling''s Imperialism; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Victorian Values is an absorbing portrait of Victorian society and culture, presenting different aspects of the age through profiles of representative or pioneering figures - among them Dickens, Pugin, Mary Kingsley, Lord Leighton, Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. It illuminates Victorian attitudes to a range of issues from education, health and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity. Widely used and enjoyed by students, teachers and general readers alike, it has now been extended with four new essays and the Introduction, comparing the Victorian age with our own, has been updated and |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317886822 |
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1317886828 |
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