Politics and culture in Victorian Britain : essays in memory of Colin Matthew /
How and why should we study Victorian Britain? The answer to this question used to be quite straightforward. It was the Victorian contribution to modern politics which stood out above all else. Today we are not so sure. This book suggest that politics are still central, but must be more broadly cons...
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2006
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Table of Contents:
- A brief word on "politics" and "culture" / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman
- Colin Matthew (1941-1999) / Boyd Hilton
- Colin Matthew : a memoir / Ross McKibbin
- Colin Matthew : a bibliography / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman
- Gladstone and Peel / Peter Ghosh
- Gladstone and a liberal theory of international relations / Martin Ceadel
- The enfranchisement of the urban poor in late-Victorian Britain / John Davis
- The defection of the middle class : the Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party and the 1874 election / Lawrence Goldman
- Liberal passions : reason and emotion in late- and post-Victorian liberal thought / Michael Freeden
- The Church of England and women's higher education, c. 1840-1914 / Janet Howarth
- Protestant histories : James Anthony Froude, partisanship, and national identity / Jane Garnett
- Roman candles : Catholic converts among authors in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Philip Waller
- Scenes from professional life : medicine, moral conduct, and interconnectedness in Middlemarch / Margaret Pelling
- Victorian interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / Jose Harris.
