A wide-ranging collection of Victorian writings by John Stuart
Mill, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and other leading lights of the
era None of the stereotypes of Victorian England-narrow-minded,
inhibited, moralistic, complacent-prepares us for the vitality,
variety, and above all extraordinary quality of intellectual life
displayed in this volume of essays. Selected and annotated by
Gertrude Himmelfarb, a distinguished historian of Victorian
thought, the writings address a wide range of subjects-religion,
politics, history, science, art, socialism, and feminism-by eminent
figures of the era, including Carlyle, Mill, Macaulay, Dickens,
Eliot, Thackeray, Newman, Arnold, and Wilde. The selections reflect
what Himmelfarb terms "the spirit of the age"-contentious as well
as earnest, given to high aspirations and convictions, and at the
same time subject to deep anxieties and doubts. The Victorians,
undisputed masters of the long, serious essay, found the genre
congenial to the expression of their most compelling and
provocative views. This volume offers a representative sampling of
essays from the early, middle, and late Victorian periods, each
accompanied by an introductory note. Himmelfarb also introduces the
volume with two enlightening essays, one on the evolving spirit of
the age, and the other on the essay as a genre and on the important
periodicals that attracted such a large and engaged audience.
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