num_pages: 734
description: This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance, and each entry is deliberately interpretative, making this work both an essential reference tool and an engaging collection of essays.Figures covered Marx, Wagner,Darwin, Malthus, Balzac, Jane Austen, Nietzsche, Babbage, Edgar Allan Poe, Ruskin, Schleiermacher, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Oscar Wilde.
language: English
title: Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture: 1800-1914
titlecomplete: Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture: 1800-1914
genres: History
publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul