Voices of Victorian England - Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

Informationen zum Autor John A. Wagner , PhD, has taught classes in British and American history at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, and Phoenix College, in Phoenix, AZ. Klappentext The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time. Voices of Victorian England illuminates the character, personalities, and events of the era through excerpts from primary documents produced between 1837 and 1901. By allowing Queen Victoria's contemporaries to speak for themselves, this work brings the achievements and conflicts that occurred during the queen's long reign alive for high school and college students as well as the general public.Excerpts represent literary giants such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, and Anthony Trollope. The book covers the worlds of politics, religion, economics, and science, and addresses subjects such as women's issues and the royal family. Documents include letters, poems, speeches, polemics, reviews, novels, official reports, and self-help guides, as well as descriptive narratives of people and events from England, Scotland, Ireland, and, where pertinent, America and continental Europe. Spelling has been modernized and unfamiliar terms defined, and questions and commentary provide background and context for each document. In addition, the book offers tools that will help readers effectively evaluate a document's meaning and importance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Victorian Britain Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents Chronology Documents of Victorian Britain Politics and Parliament 1. "We Demand Universal Suffrage": The National Petition (1839) 2. "Choose Your Motto: 'Advance' or 'Recede'": Prime Minister Robert Peel's Speech Supporting Repeal of the Corn Laws (1846) 3. "Every Man Shall.Be Entitled to Be Registered as a Voter": The Reform Act of 1867 4. "The Sympathy of the Colonies for the Mother Country": Benjamin Disraeli's "Crystal Palace Speech" (1872) 5. "No Great Day of Hope for Ireland": Prime Minister William Gladstone's House of Commons Speech Proposing Irish Home Rule (1886) Society and Economy 6. "Children Having Begun to Work before They Are Nine": Second Report of the Children's Employment Commission (1843) 7. "It Is the Custom of 'Society' to Abuse Its Servants": Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) 8. "Barely a Day's March Ahead of Actual Want": Samuel Smiles's Self-Help (1861) 9. "I Thought Such Young Men Could Not Manage the Bank": Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (1873) 10. "Grey Tones Overcast the Mind": Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London (1893) Religion and Science 11. "The Truth of These Propositions Cannot.Be Disputed": Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) 12. "Mr. Darwin's Daring Notion": Samuel Wilberforce's Review of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1860) 13. "Man Is.One with the Brutes": T. H. Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863) 14. "My Own Soul Was My First Concern": Cardinal John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864) 15. "There Is an Athenian Love of Novelty Abroad": J. C. Ryle's Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties and Roots (1877) Literature and Poetry 16. "What I Want Is Facts.Nothing But Facts": Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1854) 17. "Into the Valley of Death": Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854) 18. "And You Wish to Serve the Queen?": Anthony Trollope's The Three Clerks (1858) 19. "Has He Got Any Heart?": George Eliot's Middlemarch (1874)

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• Authors: John Wagner, John A. Wagner, John A. III Wagner
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2014
• EAN: 9780313386886
• ISBN: 978-0-313-38688-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Voices of an Era
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories