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1. Utilitarianism

   Key Nineteenth-Century Journal Sources

   Edited by Andrew Pyle

   Series: The Wellesley Series

   This archive of source materials from Victorian periodicals provides insight into the evolving moral and political thought of Britain in the 1800s, and highlights some striking anticipations of modern views.Included are writings by major utilitarian thinkers such as Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill...

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
2. British Romantic Poets

   Key 19th Century Journal Sources in Literature

   Edited by Caroline Franklin

   Series: The Wellesley Series

   This important collection of review articles makes it possible to trace the critical reputations of both major and minor British Romantic poets at the hands of first their contemporaries and then the principal Victorian critics.The collection also enables the reader to perceive the growing...

   Published December 31st 1997 by Routledge
3. Poverty and Social Welfare

   Key 19th Century Journal Sources in Social Wefare

   Series: The Wellesley Series

   This set, drawn from a variety of periodicals, focuses on poor relief, public health, education and the respective roles of charity and the state in matters of welfare....

   Published October 23rd 1996 by Routledge
4. Free Trade and Protectionism

   Key Nineteenth Century Journal Sources in Economics

   Series: The Wellesley Series

   One major issue featured permanently in Victorian periodicals throughout the century was Britain's external economic policy. In 1815 Britain was a protectionist power - an economic cordon surrounded her empire, with her mercantile marine and naval power underwritten by the Navigation Acts. By 1860,...

   Published July 3rd 1996 by Routledge
5. Language and Linguistics

   Key Nineteenth-Century Journal Sources in Linguistics

   Series: The Wellesley Series

   Topics included in this set of particular importance are those on the origin of speech, the validity of the Biblical account of language, the identity and nature of the language Adam spoke, and the relation between language and thought....

   Published September 27th 1995 by Routledge