Edwardian Turn of Mind

by Samuel Hynes

Book Overview

The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging cast of characters: Tories, Liberals and Socialists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712650288
• ISBN13: 9780712650281
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Random House (UK)
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"