The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain
1789-1837
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Word Count
116,000 words, Guess
Page Count
464 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8875962M
- ISBN-139781594201165
- ISBN-101594201161
- OCLC Control Number71266657
- OCLC Control Numbermakingofvictoria00benw
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006051398
- Goodreads429880
- LibraryThing2101497
Classifications
- LCCDA520 .W55 2007
Description
The Victorians are remembered for their propriety and stolid middle-class manners—in sharp contrast to the libertine spirit of Byron, Shelley, and the Romantics of the generation just prior. In The Making of Victorian Values, Ben Wilson—only in his twenties but already hailed in Britain as heir to the great radical historians of the twentieth century—offers a brilliant and provocative portrayal of how rebels and dissenters were quashed by authoritarians and imperialists and how mindless materialism and capitalism rolled over them all. In so doing, Wilson's eloquently written account also illuminates the startling parallels between the pre- Victorian era and our own.
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