The Victorian Frame of Mind
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The Victorian Frame of Mind

  1. 486 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Victorian Frame of Mind

About this book

“It is now forty years,” Walter Houghton writes, “since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.”  Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic “period pieces,” critical and biographical works, and extensive studies of their age, but the Victorian mind itself remains blurred for us—a bundle of various and often paradoxical ideas and attitudes.  Mr. Houghton explores these ideas and attitudes, studies their interrelationships, and traces their simultaneous existence to the general character of the age.  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. 

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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780300194289
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Preface
  4. 1. Character of the Age
  5. Part I. EMOTIONAL ATTITUDES
  6. 2. Optimism
  7. 3. Anxiety
  8. Part II. INTELLECTUAL ATTITUDES
  9. 4. The Critical Spirit–and the Witt to Believe
  10. 5. Anti-lntellectualism
  11. 6. Dogmatism
  12. 7. Rigidity
  13. Part III. MORAL ATTITUDES
  14. 8. The Commercial Spirit
  15. 9. The Worship of Force
  16. 10. Earnestness
  17. 11. Enthusiasm
  18. 12. Hero Worship
  19. 13. Love
  20. 14. Hypocrisy
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index