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Title: Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition by Gertrude Himmelfarb ISBN: 1-56663-077-0 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.90 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating
Comment: This book is a collection of essays that address various intellectual, spiritual and political crises that arose in Victorian Britain, and how the Victorians dealt with them. The first four essays are on various "proto-Victorians", including Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham and Thomas Malthus. The next six are on John Stuart Mill, Lord Acton, Leslie Stephen, Walter Bagehot, James Froude, and John Buchan. These essays are on various subjects and are not biographical. The remaining four essays are entitled, "The Victorian Ethos", "Victorian Angst", "Varieties of Social Darwinism", and "Politics and Ideology".
As with other writings of Gertrude Himmelfarb that I have read, this book is somewhat dry. However, the author always takes fascinating looks into her topics, and provides the reader with a great understanding into what Victorianism really was about. As an aside, in the book I found the essays on Malthus and Acton absorbing, along with the essay "Politics and Ideology", which was an excellent look at the Reform Act of 1867.
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Title: On Looking Into the Abyss : Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society by Gertrude Himmelfarb ISBN: 0679759239 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 31 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The De-moralization Of Society : From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values by Gertrude Himmelfarb ISBN: 0679764909 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: One Nation, Two Cultures : A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution by Gertrude Himmelfarb ISBN: 0375704108 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson ISBN: 0465023282 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The New History and the Old by Gertrude Himmelfarb ISBN: 0674615816 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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