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Chargement... Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature (1973)par Richard D. Altick
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I enjoyed reading this overview of the Victorian period because it summarized very neatly all of the cultural background that you find in Victorian novels. Altick is a master of sentence structure and he pulls together complex ideas into easily understood synopses. ( ) Subtitled 'A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature' this is an excellent and (unsually for a book written by an academic) very readable look at the beliefs and ideas which influenced Victorian authors and readers. It's therefore more of a cultural history rather than a social history but invaluable for a reader who wants to really get to grips with Victorian literature. By way of evangelicalism, romanticism, utilitarianism and probably some other 'isms' that I've forgotten, Altick makes the case that the period of time we think of when someone says 'Victiorian' is actually the relatively short 20 years from 1850-1870 and that things were very different earlier and later in Queen Victoria's reign. I took lots of notes whilst I was reading but I found this so helpful that I think I want my own copy. I also appreciated that Altick seems to have a fairly balanced view of the ideaologies of the period and never completely dismisses or demonises a particular group.
The reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this important study, Richard D. Altick moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Carlyle and Dickens, Tennyson and Arnold were daily struggling to solve. And the issues were many: the revolution in class structure and class attitudes; the rise of utilitarianism and the evangelical spirit; the crisis in religion, including the Oxford movement and Darwinism; the democratization of culture; the place of art and the artist in an industrial, bourgeois society; the effects of industrialism, especially on the way people live. Altick brings to the discussion of these complicated questions the lively and sensitive intelligence that his many readers have come to expect. He includes contemporary illustrations and a full reference index. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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