About the Book
First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman Question. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Barbara Dennis; Chapter 1 Politics and Administration, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 1_1 Politics of the present, foreign and domestic, David Masson; subChapter 1_2 Mr. Bright and democracy, John Blackie; subChapter 1_3 The ballot, S. C. Kell; subChapter 1_4 Corrupt practices at parliamentary elections, Lewis Emanuel; subChapter 1_5 Evidence to the Playfair Commission, Charles Trevelyan Sir; subChapter 1_6 The Poor Law and charity, J. Llewellyn Davies; subChapter 1_7 Mr. Gladstone and our Empire, Edward Dicey; subChapter 1_8 Two Trips to Gorilla Land, Richard Burton Sir; Chapter 2 The Gentleman, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 2_1 Character — the true Gentleman, Samuel Smiles; subChapter 2_2 The grand old name of Gentleman, J. R. Vernon; subChapter 2_3 Mill on Liberty, R. H. Hutton; subChapter 2_4 Professions and professional classes, H. Byerley Thomson; subChapter 2_5 The Gentleman’s House, Robert Kerr; Chapter 3 The Religious Debate, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 3_1 The causes of unbelief, C. J. Ellicott; subChapter 3_2 Atheism, R. H. Hutton; subChapter 3_3 The tendencies of science, H. V. Crosskey; subChapter 3_4 The attitude of the clergy towards science, John Hannah; subChapter 3_5 The clergyman who subscribes for Colenso, Anthony Trollope; subChapter 3_6 The aims of the Cambridge Camden Society, A. J. Beresford Hope; subChapter 3_7 The mode of dealing with popish tendencies, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 3_8 Auricular confession in the Church of England, Frances Power Cobbe; subChapter 3_9 Conformity sin, because unjust to Nonconformists, William Robinson; Chapter 4 The Scientific Approach, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 4_1 Modern science, William Johnston; subChapter 4_2 Utilitarianism and the summum bonum, T. E. C. Leslie; subChapter 4_3 Convocation and Dr. Colenso, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 4_4 The study of history, Fitzjames Stephen; subChapter 4_5 On the scientific study of poetry, Francis Palgrave; subChapter 4_6 On physiognomy, E. S. Dallas; Chapter 5 The ‘Woman Question’, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 5_1 The position of women, E. P. Hood; subChapter 5_2 The rights and wrongs of women, F. O. Morris; subChapter 5_3 ‘The Angel in the House’, Caroline Norton; subChapter 5_4 Criminals, idiots, women, and minors: is the classification sound?, Francis Power Cobbe; subChapter 5_5 Female suffrage and married life, Julia Wedgwood; subChapter 5_6 College education for women, Emily Shirreff; subChapter 5_7 The practice of medicine by women, Sophia Jex-Blake; subChapter 5_8 Male and female morality, Josephine Butler; Chapter 6 Education, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 6_1 The manufacturing poor — education, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 6_2 Thoughts of an outsider: public schools, Leslie Stephen; subChapter 6_3 An inquiry into the state of girls’ fashionable schools, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 6_4 The University of London and middle-class education, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 6_5 Universities of England — Oxford, William Hamilton Sir; subChapter 6_6 Queen’s College, London, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 6_7 Technical education a national want, J. S. Russell; Chapter 7 Leisure and the Arts, Barbara Dennis, David Skilton; subChapter 7_1 Sundays and festivals, Frederic Harrison; subChapter 7_2 Pictures and picture-criticism, George Richmond; subChapter 7_3 A petition to novel-writers, Wilkie Collins; subChapter 7_4 A word about our theatres, Theodore Martin; subChapter 7_5 The present state of photography, Herbert Story-Maskelyne; subChapter 7_6 A sportsman’s apology, T. H. Ward;
About the Author :
Barbara Dennis, David Skilton
