Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67 - Softcover

Briggs, Asa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226074889 ISBN 13: 9780226074887

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1975

Synopsis

This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War", and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark", Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the last century.

"For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is always readable, often amusing, never facetious. He is widely read and widely interested. He has a sound historic judgment, and an unfailing sense for what is significant in the historic sequence and what is merely topical. . . . Above all, he is in sympathy with the age of which he is writing."—Times Literary Supplement

About this title

Product Description:

[ Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67 (Rev) By ( Author ) Apr-1975 Paperback

Synopsis:

Examines the achievements and ideas of the critics, chroniclers, and reformers responsible for molding the character of Victorian England.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0226074889
• ISBN 13: 9780226074887
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368