Contributions

  • Clive, John Leonard, 1924- - Contributor
  • Pedersen, Susan, 1959- - Contributor
  • Mandler, Peter. - Contributor

Publication

1994 - Routledge, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

66,250 words, Guess

Page Count

265 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC303.4/84/0941
  • LCCHN385 .A38 1994

Description

The sons and daughters of the Victorian intelligentsia often claimed to have rejected their parents' political liberalism and domestic puritanism. But how much of this legacy did they really reject? Written by a team of eminent historians, these biographical essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as "civilization," 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.

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Other Editions

  • After the Victorians: private conscience and public duty in modern Britain : essays in memory of John CliveRoutledge1994-01-01

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