The Victorian eighteenth century : an intellectual history / B.W. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, B. W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Victorians were preoccupied by the eighteenth century. It was central to many nineteenth-century debates, particularly those concerning the place of history and religion in national life. This book explores the diverse responses of key Victorian writers and thinkers, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, Leslie Stephen, Vernon Lee, and M.R. James to a period which commanded their interest throughout the Victorian era, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the opening decades ofthe twentieth century. They were, on the one hand, appalled by the apparent frivolity of the eighteenth century, wh

Contents:

Carlyle and the 'distracted century'

Carlyle, Friedrich, and the 'bastard heroic'

Gibbon, Newman, and the religious accuracy of the historian

The Stephen family and the eighteenth century

Hanoverian hauntings.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-153131-6

1-281-16413-5

9786611164133

1-4356-2255-3

OCLC:

191046840