1st Edition
Self-Help and Civic Culture Citizenship in Victorian Birmingham
By Anne B. Rodrick
Copyright 2004
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2004. The nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of the culture of self-improvement that was reflected in a plethora of institutes, societies and journals that sprang up across Britain with the goal of spreading knowledge and learning to a wide spectrum of society. The prophets of self-improvement believed that not only was self-improvement a laudable goal in its own right,... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Framing self-improvement: definitions and problems; 'Smitten by the love of knowledge': improvement in early Victorian Birmingham; 'Our excelsior class': creating citizens in mid-Victorian Birmingham; Reform and reputation: education, citizenship and municipal improvement 1870-1900; Civilizing 'the coming race': the attenuation of adult improvement, 1900-1914; Conclusion: the fortunes of improvement; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Anne B. Rodrick
