The Victorian Frame Of Mind
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A landmark work in Victorian studies, The Victorian Frame of Mind presents a sweeping intellectual and cultural history of nineteenth-century Britain. Walter E. Houghton identifies and analyses the defining attitudes, anxieties, and beliefs that characterised the Victorian era, from the crisis of faith and the worship of force to the pervasive sense of optimism and moral earnestness. Drawing on an extraordinarily broad range of primary sources — including letters, diaries, essays, novels, and sermons — the work argues that Victorian thought cannot be reduced to a single tendency but is instead a complex and often contradictory web of competing impulses. Authoritative in scope and meticulous in detail, it remains an indispensable reference for anyone seeking to understand the intellectual climate that shaped one of history's most transformative centuries.
Author: Walter E. Houghton
Format: Paperback
Published: 1976, Yale University Press
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Some foxing on book block. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages.
A landmark work in Victorian studies, The Victorian Frame of Mind presents a sweeping intellectual and cultural history of nineteenth-century Britain. Walter E. Houghton identifies and analyses the defining attitudes, anxieties, and beliefs that characterised the Victorian era, from the crisis of faith and the worship of force to the pervasive sense of optimism and moral earnestness. Drawing on an extraordinarily broad range of primary sources — including letters, diaries, essays, novels, and sermons — the work argues that Victorian thought cannot be reduced to a single tendency but is instead a complex and often contradictory web of competing impulses. Authoritative in scope and meticulous in detail, it remains an indispensable reference for anyone seeking to understand the intellectual climate that shaped one of history's most transformative centuries.