Year That Shaped the Victorian Age - Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845

Michael Wheeler is a leading authority on the Victorian age. His exploration of 1845 transforms our understanding of the period.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Public Scandals: 1. Opening Mazzini's mail: Sir James Graham and the Post Office; 2. The railway juggernaut: Delane, Dickens and the press; 3. Poor law bastille: the Andover workhouse scandal; Part II. Private Lives: 4. Love by post: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning; 5. Letters from the Continent: Ruskin in Italy; 6. Letters of the living and the dead: Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle; Part III. Oxford Movements: 7. Established church in crisis: William George Ward and the Oxford Movement; 8. A dangerous correspondence: Newman on the road to Rome; Part IV. Irish Questions: 9. Educating papist priests: Gladstone and the Maynooth grant; 10. From our own Commissioner: Daniel O'Connell and The Times; 11. A prime minister resigns: Peel and the Corn Laws; Afterword.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Michael Wheeler is a leading cultural and literary historian and presently a Visiting Professor of English Literature at the University of Southampton. His many critically acclaimed books include the prize-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (1990), Ruskin's God (1999), The Old Enemies (2006) and St John and the Victorians (2011) – all published by Cambridge University Press – and, most recently, The Athenæum, published by Yale University Press in 2020.

Zusammenfassung

Exploring the pivotal correspondence and intimate testimonies of prominent luminaries from the era, this compelling new book by a leading authority transforms our understanding of the period by concentrating on the pivotal year 1845, a year of crises and challenges, in the crucible of which Victorian England took shape.

Vorwort

Michael Wheeler is a leading authority on the Victorian age. His exploration of 1845 transforms our understanding of the period.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Wheeler, Michael (University of Southampton) Wheeler
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781009268851
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926885-1
• Seiten: 280
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Trains & railways: general interest, Diaries, letters and journals, Trains and railways: general interest