1st Edition

Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England

Edited By Barbara Dennis, David Skilton Copyright 1987
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman... Read more

Introduction;  1. Politics and Administration  2. The Gentleman  3. The Religious Debate  4. The Scientific Approach  5. The ‘Woman Question’  6. Education 7 . Leisure and the Arts;  Further Reading;  Index

Biography

Barbara Dennis, David Skilton