Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture: 1800–1914: 2 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415265843 ISBN 13: 9780415265843

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance, and each entry is deliberately interpretative, making this work both an essential reference tool and an engaging collection of essays.
Figures covered include: Marx, Wagner,Darwin, Malthus, Balzac, Jane Austen, Nietzsche, Babbage, Edgar Allan Poe, Ruskin, Schleiermacher, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Oscar Wilde.

About this title

About the Author:

Justin Wintle has a degree in Modern History from Oxford. He is the author of Perfect Hostage, Romancing Vietnam, The Vietnam Wars, Furious Interiors, and the Rough Guide histories of China, Islam, and Spain. He is a contributor to the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, and The Independent.

Synopsis:

This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415265843
• ISBN 13: 9780415265843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 734
• Editor: Esq Justin Wintle, Wintle Justin