After the Victorians - Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain (Hardcover)

Written by a team of noted historians, these essays explore how ten 20th-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as "civilisation", "domesticity", "conscience" and "improvement" to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. Covering such figures as J.M. Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lord Reith of the BBC, these interdisciplinary studies scrutinize the children of the Victorians at a time when their private assumptions and public positions were under increasing strain in a rapidly changing world. "After the Victorians" is written in honour of the late Professor John Clive of Harvard, and uses, as he did, the method of biography to connnect the public and private lives of the generations who came after the Victorians. Peter Mandler is also author of "Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform: Whigs and Liberals, 1830-1852", and editor of "The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the 19th Century Metropolis".

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1994
First published:	1994
Editors:	Peter Mandler • Susan Pedersen
Foreword by:	Afterword by Simon Schama, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-07056-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-415-07056-2
Barcode:	9780415070560

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