1st Edition
Victorian Revolutionaries Speculations on Some Heroes of a Culture Crisis
By Morse Peckham
Copyright 1970
321 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Victorian era is rightly associated with the industrial revolution in Britain and the ascendancy of a materialist, commercially-oriented middle class. The threat to spiritual values was felt strongly in the realm of religion but also in the secular realm of the arts and literature. This volume analyzes the drive toward cultural transcendence in the lives and works of such eminent Victorians... Read more
Preliminary
I Escape from Charisma
II We Are Insane
III Personality and the Mask of Knowledge
IV The Uses of the Unfashionable
V The Romantic Birth of Anthropology
VI Eroticism=Politics: Politics=Eroticism
Index
Biography
Arthur Asa Berger
