Friday, 13 January 2017

Victorian People and Ideas By Richard D. Altick

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Title:Victorian People and Ideas
Author:Richard D. Altick
Format:Paperback
Page:338 pages
ISBN:039309376X

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 structu 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 brings to the discussion of these complicated questions the lively and sensitive intelligence that his many readers have come to expect He includes contemporary illustrations and a full reference index


about Author

Richard Altick was Regent s Professor of English, Emeritus, at The Ohio State University and the author of numerous important works in the field of literary studies.



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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 Alti
Victorian People and Ideas
338 pagesRichard D. Altick

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