The National Review - Softcover

Richard Holt Hutton

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The National Review is a Victorian-era periodical offering a broad spectrum of critical essays and reviews. The collection surveys literary biography ethics, political biography, art criticism, educational reform, and constitutional analysis as it grapples with questions of privacy, representation, and national culture. It includes discussions of Miss Brontė—broadly sympathetic to Charlotte Brontė's genius while condemning biographers who reveal private life or misrepresent real people in fiction—along with portraits of Lord Brougham as a reformer and public thinker, and a critique of the Manchester Exhibition's curatorial standards. Additional items examine middle-class education and the University of London, the functioning of the postwar New Parliament, and broader Victorian debates about culture and governance. The issue also features reviews of natural history, physiology, religion, poetry, folklore, and imperial history, reflecting a wide-ranging effort to map ideas, styles, and national character.

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