The VictoriansThe Victorians
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Book, 2003
Current format, Book, 2003, First American edition, All copies in use.Book, 2003
Current format, Book, 2003, First American edition, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsA revisionist panorama of the nineteenth century examines the era's material and spiritual changes in the wake of emerging British capitalism and imperialism, as told through the writings of such figures as Darwin, Marks, George Eliot, and Kipling. 40,000 first printing.
A revisionist panorama of the nineteenth century examines the era's material and spiritual changes in the wake of emerging British capitalism and imperialism.
Wilson, a writer and biographer, turns his gift for a good story to the complex subject of the Victorians, their society, deep urban and societal ills, politics, larger-than-life personalities, and details of daily life and death. The lives of the era's best-known aristocrats, politicians, thinkers, and writers are told in tandem with stories of popular events, personalities, and scandals in a seamless and fascinating read. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own. The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized; in scientific knowledge; in nonreligious intellectual development; and in capital and its consequences. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, hence the most important, investors in the developing world. In this sense, England's position has strong resemblances to America's in the late twentieth century. As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in these pages he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminate so grand and revolutionary a history: Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling. Wilson's accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended. 32 pages of b/w illustrations.
A revisionist panorama of the nineteenth century examines the era's material and spiritual changes in the wake of emerging British capitalism and imperialism.
Wilson, a writer and biographer, turns his gift for a good story to the complex subject of the Victorians, their society, deep urban and societal ills, politics, larger-than-life personalities, and details of daily life and death. The lives of the era's best-known aristocrats, politicians, thinkers, and writers are told in tandem with stories of popular events, personalities, and scandals in a seamless and fascinating read. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own. The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized; in scientific knowledge; in nonreligious intellectual development; and in capital and its consequences. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, hence the most important, investors in the developing world. In this sense, England's position has strong resemblances to America's in the late twentieth century. As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in these pages he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminate so grand and revolutionary a history: Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling. Wilson's accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended. 32 pages of b/w illustrations.
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