Contesting cultural authority
Subtitle: essays in Victorian intellectual life
By: Frank M. Turner.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Description: This volume of essays by a leading scholar of Victorian intellectual history reflects research, teaching and writing carried out over more than twenty years. Five of the essays are new; seven, although published previously, have been revised for this collection. The essays cover an extremely wide spectrum of Victorian thought, including the issues of secularisation, cultural apostasy, the crisis of faith, Victorian scientific naturalism, the conflict between science and religion, the relationship of science and politics, and the Victorian attitude towards the ancient world. Taken as a whole the essays constitute a major revisionist overview of the Victorian intellectual enterprise which will be of interest to scholars in a wide variety of fields.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.