The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 (Yale Paperbound, Y-99)
Publisher: Yale University Press; Published for Wellesley College by Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1963
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780300001228
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; 19th century; Civilization; Great Britain; Gt. Brit.; History; Intellectual life; Victoria, 1837-1901
First sentence: IN 1858 a Victorian critic, searching for an epithet to describe "the remarkable period in which our own lot is cast," did not call it the age of democracy or industry or science, nor of earnestness or optimism.