Cultivating Victorians
Subtitle: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780812237542
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: 19th century; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History; English literature; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Sociology; British Isles; History and criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Culture; Anthropology - Cultural; 19th century; Great Britain; Liberalism in literature; Politics and culture
First sentence: In 1859 Samuel Smiles declared, "National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness and vice."