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Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms. Gertrude Himmelfarb's distinguished piece of intellectual history explores these tensions and problems with sympathy, candor, and critical subtlety. Victorian Minds is a study of intellectuals in crisis and of ideologies in transition, rendered with an elegance of style and thought. "Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectual life of 19th-century England as immediately. ... The essays are remarkable no less for the cogency of their wit than for the range and precision of their scholarship"―Lionel Trilling. "Precise and discriminating ... an exemplary study of the 19th century and a superb introduction to the 20th."―Robert A. Nisbet. "Miss Himmelfarb is a writer to whom the organization of ideas into intricate shapes and patterns is imperative, and like many of her subjects-and comparatively few modern intellectuals-she is capable of poised and meaningful generalization."― A. S. Byatt.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb is professor emeritus of history in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has written extensively on Victorian England, including The De-Moralization of Society, Poverty and Compassion, The Idea of Poverty, and On Liberty and Liberalism. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Powerfully poised...an imperative collection of essays. (A. S. Byatt)
Precise and discriminating...an exemplary study of the nineteenth-century and a superb introduction to the twentieth. (Robert A. Nisbet)
Remarkable no less for the cogency of its wit than for the range and precision of its scholarship. (Lionel Trilling)
Intellectual, sharp, and often original. (The New York Times)
...highly nuanced... (Peter Heinegg American)
Precise and discriminating...an exemplary study of the nineteenth-century and a superb introduction to the twentieth. (Robert A. Nisbet)
Remarkable no less for the cogency of its wit than for the range and precision of its scholarship. (Lionel Trilling)
Intellectual, sharp, and often original. (The New York Times)
...highly nuanced... (Peter Heinegg American)
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0297176641
- ISBN 13 9780297176640
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xiii, 397 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Essays. Includes bibliographical references.Originally published, Knopf, 1968. Contents: pt. 1. Proto-Victorians. Edmund Burke: The hero as politician ; The politician as philosopher -- The haunted house of Jeremy Bentham -- The specter of Malthus. pt. 2. High Victorians. The other John Stuart Mill -- Lord Acton: the historian as moralist -- Leslie Stephen: the Victorian as intellectual -- Walter Bagehot: a common man with uncommon ideas -- James Anthony Froude: a forgotten worthy -- John Buchan: the last Victorian. pt. 3. Victorian ideas and ideologies. The Victorian ethos: before and after Victoria -- The Victorian angst -- Varieties of social Darwinism -- Politics and ideology: the Reform Act of 1867. Subjects: Burke, Edmund. Bentham, Jeremy.Malthus, Thomas.Mill, John Stuart. Acton, Harold 1904-1994.Stephen, Leslie. Bagehot, Walter 1826-1877.Froude, James Anthony 1818-1894. Buchan, John.1800-1899. Intellectual life.Zeitgeist. Intellectuals Great Britain 19th centuryEnglish literature 19th century History and criticism. NUD DE.INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: Victorian period, 1037-1901: Britain. Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century.Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.Great Britain. GroßbritannienGreat Britain Intellectual life 19th century. Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle. Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century. Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.England Intellectual life 19th century. England Civilization 19th centuryGreat Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.Great Britain Intellectual life.Great Britain Civilisation 19th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 390863
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