Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain
Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 March 2006
- ISBN 9780199253456
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 242x161x21 mm
- Weight 569 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, 8 tables 0
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Short description:
How and why should we study Victorian Britain? The answer to this question used to be quite straightforward. It was the Victorian contribution to modern politics which stood out above all else. Today we are not so sure. This book suggest that politics are still central, but must be more broadly construed, as a pervasive part of Victorian culture as a whole.
MoreLong description:
In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious or self-evidently important subject. Facing up to this challenge, the historians who have contributed to this volume explore central aspects of that history. They continue to uphold the centrality of politics to Victorian Britain, but suggest that politics must be viewed more broadly, as a concern pervading almost all spheres of life, just as Victorians themselves would have done. In this way politics penetrates into Victorian culture. 'Politics' can lead us into the ideas governing political action itself; political ideas; international relations; the eduction of men and women; the writing of history and of literature; engagement with past political theorists; and the ideas behind professionalization. Such are some of the themes taken up here.
The specific occasion for these essays was as a tribute to the memory of the late Colin Matthew, one of the most eminent recent historians of Victorian Britain, who was himself determined to uphold the contemporary relevance of Victorian political tradition, and to explore the interface between 'politics' and 'culture'. Reflection on his intellectual achievement is a second distinctive component of this book.
...the essays are generally of a high quality.
Table of Contents:
A Brief Word on 'Politics' and 'Culture'
Colin Matthew 1941-1999
Colin Matthew: A Memoir
Colin Matthew: A Bibliography
Gladstone and Peel
Gladstone and a Liberal Theory of International Relations
The Enfranchisement of the Urban Poor in Victorian Britain
The Defection of the Middle Class: The Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party, and the 1874 Election
Liberal Passions: Reason and Emotion in Late and Post-Victorian Liberal Thought
The Church of England and Women's Higher Education c.1840-1914
Protestant Histories: James Anthony Froude, Partisanship, and National Identity
Roman Candles: Literary Converts in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Scenes from Professional Life: Medicine, Moral Conduct and Inter-connectedness in Middlemarch
Victorian Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes
Index
