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The Victorian Eighteenth Century - An Intellectual History (Hardcover)
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The Victorian Eighteenth Century - An Intellectual History (Hardcover)
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The Victorians were preoccupied by the eighteenth century. It was
central to many nineteenth-century debates, particularly those
concerning the place of history and religion in national life. This
book explores the diverse responses of key Victorian writers and
thinkers, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, Leslie Stephen, Vernon
Lee, and M.R. James to a period which commanded their interest
throughout the Victorian era, from the accession of Queen Victoria
to the opening decades of the twentieth century. They were, on the
one hand, appalled by the apparent frivolity of the eighteenth
century, which was denounced by Carlyle as a dispiriting successor
to the culture of Puritan England, and, on the other they were
concerned to continue its secularising influence on English
culture, as is seen in the pioneering work of Leslie Stephen, who
was passionately keen to transform the legacy of eighteenth-century
scepticism into Victorian agnosticism.
The Victorian interest in the eighteenth century was never a
purely insular matter, and the history of eighteenth-century
France, Germany, and Italy played a dominant role in the
nineteenth-century historical understanding. A debate between
generations was enacted, in which Romanticism melded into
Victorianism. The Victorians were haunted by the eighteenth
century, both metaphorically and literally, and the book closes
with consideration of the culturally resonant eighteenth-century
ghosts encountered in the fiction of Vernon Lee and M.R. James.
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