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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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.
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.
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