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Title:

The spirit of the age : Victorian essays / edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

vi, 327 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English essays--19th century.
Authors, English--19th century--Political and social views.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century--Sources.
Great Britain--Civilization--19th century--Sources.

Other Authors:

Himmelfarb, Gertrude.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

"Evolution and ethics" (1893) / Spirit of the age -- Essay as genre -- Early Victorian England. "Signs of the times" (1829) / T. H. Huxley. "Spirit of the age" (1831) / John Stuart Mill -- "Civil disabilities of the Jews" (1831) / T. B. Macaulay -- "Snobs of England, by one of themselves" (1846-47) / W. M. Thackeray -- "Demoralization and total abstinence" (1849) / Charles Dickens -- Mid-Victorian England. "Evangelical teaching : Dr. Cumming" (1855) / George Eliot -- "Dull government," "Average government," and "Thinking government" (1856) / Walter Bagehot -- "Few words on non-intervention" (1859) / John Stuart Mill -- "Roots of honour" (1860) / John Ruskin -- "General answer to Mr. Kingsley" (1864) / John Henry Newman -- "Culture and its enemies" (1867) / Matthew Arnold -- Late Victorian England. "History of freedom in antiquity" (1877) / John E. E. D. Acton -- "Future of Englishwomen : a reply" (1878) / Millicent Garrett Fawcett -- "'Robert Elsmere' : the Battle of Belief" (1888) / W. E. Gladstone -- "Pages from a work girl's diary" (1888) / Beatrice Webb -- "Soul of man under socialism" (1891) / Oscar Wilde -- "Evolution and ethics" (1893) / T. H. Huxley.

ISBN:

0300123302 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300123302 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007925376

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)