Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth Century Society

by Gordon Marsden

Book Overview

Victorian Values is an absorbing portrait of Victorian society and culture, presenting different aspects of the age through profiles of representative or pioneering figures - among them Dickens, Pugin, Mary Kingsley, Lord Leighton, Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. It illuminates Victorian attitudes to a range of issues from education, health and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity. Widely used and enjoyed by students, teachers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582292891
• ISBN13: 9780582292895
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"