The Victorian Period
The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830 - 1890
Seiten
1994
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-49347-6 (ISBN)
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-49347-6 (ISBN)
This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated Victorian literature.
The author begins by establishing the social and institutional framework in which intellectual and cultural life developed. Special attention is paid to the reform agenda of new groups which challenged traditional society, and this perspective informs Gilmour's discussion throughout the book. He assesses Victorian religion, science and politics in their own terms and in relation to the larger cultural politics of the middle-class challenge to traditionalism. Familiar topics, such as the Oxford Movement and Darwinism, are seen afresh, and those once neglected areas which are now increasingly important to modern scholars are brought into clear focus, such as Victorian agnosticism, the politics of gender, 'Englishness', and photography. The most innovative feature of this compelling study is the prominence given to the contemporary preoccupation with time. The Victorians' time-hauntedness emerges as the defining feature of their civilisation - the remote time of geology and evolution, the public time of history, the private time of autobiography.
The author begins by establishing the social and institutional framework in which intellectual and cultural life developed. Special attention is paid to the reform agenda of new groups which challenged traditional society, and this perspective informs Gilmour's discussion throughout the book. He assesses Victorian religion, science and politics in their own terms and in relation to the larger cultural politics of the middle-class challenge to traditionalism. Familiar topics, such as the Oxford Movement and Darwinism, are seen afresh, and those once neglected areas which are now increasingly important to modern scholars are brought into clear focus, such as Victorian agnosticism, the politics of gender, 'Englishness', and photography. The most innovative feature of this compelling study is the prominence given to the contemporary preoccupation with time. The Victorians' time-hauntedness emerges as the defining feature of their civilisation - the remote time of geology and evolution, the public time of history, the private time of autobiography.
Robin Gilmour
List of Plates Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. The Sense of Time and the Uses of History 2. Religion- Reform, Rejection, Reconstruction 3. Science- Re-Imagining the Universe 4. The Life of Ideas and the Culture of Politics 5. The Arts in an Industrial Age Postscript Chronology General Bibliographers Individual Authors Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.1.1994 |
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Reihe/Serie | Longman Literature In English Series |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 620 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-582-49347-1 / 0582493471 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-582-49347-6 / 9780582493476 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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