Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition
by Himmelfarb, GertrudeFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-03-01
Publisher(s): Natl Book Network
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Summary
A study of intellectuals in crisis and of ideologies in transition, elegant in style and thought.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Proto-Victorians | |
| Edmund Burke | |
| The Hero as Politician | p. 4 |
| The Politician as Philosopher | p. 14 |
| The Haunted House of Jeremy Bentham | p. 32 |
| The Specter of Malthus | p. 82 |
| High Victorians | |
| The Other John Stuart Mill | p. 113 |
| Lord Acton: The Historian as Moralist | p. 155 |
| Leslie Stephen: The Victorian as Intellectual | p. 198 |
| Walter Bagehot: A Common Man with Uncommon Ideas | p. 220 |
| James Anthony Froude: A Forgotten Worthy | p. 236 |
| John Buchan: The Last Victorian | p. 249 |
| Victorian Ideas and Ideologies | |
| The Victorian Ethos: Before and After Victoria | p. 275 |
| The Victorian Angst | p. 300 |
| Varieties of Social Darwinism | p. 314 |
| Politics and Ideology: The Reform Act of 1867 | p. 333 |
| Index | |
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