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A carregar... The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870por Walter E. Houghton
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. One of my grad school teachers gave this to me years ago and I have returned to it again and again over the years. I haven't begun to plumb its depths. Its a great guidebook to the Victorian mind. I'm not a professor, by the way, just always been interested in the Victorians. ( ) In this book, Walter Houghton attempts to chronicle the major streams of Victorian philosophical and literary thought. It's an amazingly thorough project-- his bibliography is some fifteen pages long, and it only includes the sources he cited at least three times! He apparently spent 25 years of his life on it, and it shows. He communicates the major themes of the Victorian era well, especially the anxiety that gripped Britain at the time. For the first time, society was changing so fast that people were aware of it, but unlike in the present, they still had an expectation that things would settle down and crystallize after a while; they just had to muddle through until then. Too bad for them it never really worked out. However, Houghton's almost too thorough-- many of his ideas tend to repeat themselves throughout the book-- and though everything he says about the Victorian era is backed up with a million quotes, he has no problem at all with making sweeping, unsupported generalizations about anything after 1870. Still, worth a look for anyone interested in the time period, though it might be better called John Stuart Mill's Frame of Mind, given how often Houghton quotes him. sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
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ôIt is now forty years,ö Walter Houghton writes, ôsince Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.öá Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic ôperiod pieces,ö critical and biographical works, and extensive studies of their age, but the Victorian mind itself remains blurred for usùa bundle of various and often paradoxical ideas and attitudes.á Mr. Houghton explores these ideas and attitudes, studies their interrelationships, and traces their simultaneous existence to the general character of the age.á His inquiry is the more important because it demonstrates that to look into the Victorian mind is to see some of the primary sources of the modern mind. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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