Michael Wheeler

Year That Shaped the Victorian Age (eBook, PDF)

Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009268844
• Artikelnr.: 70910626

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.