Victorian values : a joint symposium of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy December 1990
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Victorian values : a joint symposium of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy December 1990
（Proceedings of the British Academy, 78）
Oxford University Press for the British Academy, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about Victorian values. This collection of papers attempts to sift through the myths to illustrate how the reality of the Victorian age differs from modern perceptions. Of particular relevance is Raphael Samuel's important examination of Mrs Thatcher's use of the concept, while other papers shed light on Victorian issues, from the Scotland of Samuel Smiles to the position of women.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Mrs Thatcher's Return to Victorian Values
- Victorian Values in Scotland and England
- Victorian Values and the Upper Classes
- Thomas Chalmers and the Communal Ideal in Victorian Scotland
- 'I suppose you are not a Baptist or a Roman Catholic?': Nonconformity's True Conformity
- Goodness and Goods: Victorian Literature and Values for the Middle Class Reader
- Darwinism and Victorian Values: Threat or Opportunity
- Medical Values in a Commercial Age
- Victorian Values and the Founders of the Welfare State
- The Workhouse
- Victorian Values and Women and Public and Private
- Some Concluding Thoughts
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