After the Victorians : private conscience and public duty in modern Britain ; essays in memory of John Clive / edited by Peter Mandler and Susan Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mandler, Peter.

Pedersen, Susan, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social reformers--Great Britain.

Social reformers.

Social movements--Great Britain.

Social movements.

Civic leaders--Great Britain.

Civic leaders.

Intellectuals--Great Britain.

Intellectuals.

Duty.

Conscience.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415070562

OCLC:

28026848