The Spirit of the Age: Victorian EssaysGertrude Himmelfarb Yale University Press, 2007 - 327페이지 None of the stereotypes of Victorian England--narrow-minded, inhibited, moralistic, complacent--prepares us for the vitality, variety, and above all extraordinary quality of intellectual life displayed in this volume of essays. Selected and annotated by Gertrude Himmelfarb, a distinguished historian of Victorian thought, the writings address a wide range of subjects--religion, politics, history, science, art, socialism, and feminism--by eminent figures of the era, including Carlyle, Mill, Macaulay, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, Newman, Arnold, and Wilde. The selections reflect what Himmelfarb terms "the spirit of the age"--Contentious as well as earnest, given to high aspirations and convictions, and at the same time subject to deep anxieties and doubts. The Victorians, undisputed masters of the long, serious essay, found the genre congenial to the expression of their most compelling and provocative views. This volume offers a representative sampling of essays from the early, middle, and late Victorian periods, each accompanied by an introductory note. Himmelfarb also introduces the volume with two enlightening essays, one on the evolving spirit of the age, and the other on the essay as a genre and on the important periodicals that attracted such a large and engaged audience. |
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... human nature forbids the complete prevalence of such a theory . Fatally powerful as religious systems have been , human nature is stronger and wider than religious systems , and though dogmas may hamper , they cannot absolutely repress ...
... human nature forbids the complete prevalence of such a theory . Fatally powerful as religious systems have been , human nature is stronger and wider than religious systems , and though dogmas may hamper , they cannot absolutely repress ...
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... human perfection in an internal condition , in the growth and predominance of our humanity proper , as distinguished from our animality . It places it in the ever - increasing efficacy and in the general harmonious expansion of those ...
... human perfection in an internal condition , in the growth and predominance of our humanity proper , as distinguished from our animality . It places it in the ever - increasing efficacy and in the general harmonious expansion of those ...
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... human perfection com- plete on all sides , applies to them . But men of culture and poetry , it will be said , are again and again failing , and failing conspicuously , in the necessary first stage to a harmonious perfec- tion , in the ...
... human perfection com- plete on all sides , applies to them . But men of culture and poetry , it will be said , are again and again failing , and failing conspicuously , in the necessary first stage to a harmonious perfec- tion , in the ...
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