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Available
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Publication
Penguin (Non-Classics) (1976), Paperback, 704 pages
Description
THAT OSCAR WILDE AND CARLYLE, MACAULAYAND PATER, SAMUEL BUTLER AND CARDINAL NEWMAN CAN ALL BECALLED VICTORIANS INDICATES HOW WIDE A FIELD THE TERM EMBRACES. THE SELECTIONS IN THIS ANTHOLOGY HAVE BEEN CHOSEN AND ARRANGED FOR WHAT THEY TELL US OFTHAT SURPRISINGLY REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD - ITS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL OUTLOOK, ART, PHILOSOPHY, CUSTOMS - AS MUCH AS FOR THEIR PURELY LITERARY INTEREST. INCLUDED ARE SUBSTANTIAL, SELF-CONTAINED PASSAGES FROM THIRTY-SEVEN BRITISH AUTHORS: NOVELISTS, ESSAYISTS, HUMORISTS, SCIENTISTS, WRITERS ON RELIGION AND EDUCATION, WRITERS OF LEADERS FOR 'THE TIMES', LETTER-WRITERS, EVEN QUEEN VICTORIA HERSELF IN HER JOURNAL.
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Original publication date
1972
Physical description
704 p.; 7.72 inches
ISBN
0140150692 / 9780140150698
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Punch, The Times, Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Brontë, Samuel Butler, Thomas Carlyle, Darwin, Dickens, Disraeli, George Eliot, Engels, Gaskell, Thomas Hughes, Thomas Henry Huxley, Kingsley, Charles Lyell, Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Karl Marx, David Masson, Henry Mayhew, John Stuart Mill, George Moore, William Morris, John Henry Newman, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, Samuel Smiles, Herbert Spencer, Thackeray, Trollope, Queen Victoria, others