Description
| Product ID: | 9780582292895 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Victorian Values |
| Subtitle: | Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth Century Society |
| Authors: | Author: Gordon Marsden |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, European history, History, Social and cultural history, British & Irish history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & cultural history |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A portrait of Victorian society and culture, this text presents aspects of the age through profiles of pioneering figures. It covers attitudes to a range of issues from education, health and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity. 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 rewritten. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1998-07-20 |
