Victorian minds
By: by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Edition: 1st Harper Torchbook ed.
Series: Harper torchbooks -- TB 1536
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: [1.]; title: Proto-Victorians:; title: Edmund Burke:; title: The hero as politician ;; title: The politician as philosopher --; title: The haunted house of Jeremy Bentham --; title: The specter of Malthus -- -- [2.]; title: High Victorians:; title: The other John Stuart Mill --; title: Lord Acton: the historian as moralist --; title: Leslie Stephen: the Victorian as intellectual --; title: Walter Bagehot: a common man with uncommon ideas --; title: James Anthony Froude: a forgotten worthy --; title: John Buchan: the last Victorian -- -- [3.]; title: Victorian ideas and ideologies:; title: The Victorian ethos: before and after Victoria --; title: The Victorian angst --; title: Varieties of social Darwinism --; title: Politics and ideology: the Reform Act of 1867.