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viii, 343 pages 23 cm Introductory: From aristocracy to democracy. Influence of the Puritan middle class. Industry and science. Science and religion. Humanitarianism and education. The position of women. The condition of the people -- The early Victorians: The Reform Act. The Palmerston administration. Social influence of the county families. Railways. Manners and customs. The Victorian smugness. Blots on early Victorian civilization. Contemporary protests. Remedial measures -- The early Victorian prose writers: Thomas Babington Macaulay. Thomas Carlyle. John Stuart Mill. John Henry Newman. John Ruskin -- Early Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens. William Makepeace Thackeray. Anthony Trollope. Charlotte and Emily Bronte. Mrs. Gaskell. George Borrow -- Early Victorian poets: Elizabeth Barrett. Robert Browning. Alfred Tennyson -- Mid-Victorians: The evolution theory. The church intervenes. Biblical criticism. Social and political discussion. Poetry and fiction -- Mid-Victorian scientists, publicists, historians, and essayists: Charles Darwin. Thomas Henry Huxley. John Tyndall. Herbert Spencer. Sir Henry Maine. Walter Bagehot. The historians. John Morley -- Mid-Victorian novelists: S

Author
John W. Cunliffe ..
Publisher
D. Appleton-Century Company, incorporated
Published
1934
Language
EN
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Biography

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