Makers of nineteenth century culture, 1800-1914
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Makers of nineteenth century culture, 1800-1914
(The makers of culture : a biographical guide, v. 2)
Routledge, 2002
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981
Original edition has ISBN: 0710092954
Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance, and each entry is deliberately interpretative, making this work both an essential reference tool and an engaging collection of essays.
Figures covered include: Marx, Wagner,Darwin, Malthus, Balzac, Jane Austen, Nietzsche, Babbage, Edgar Allan Poe, Ruskin, Schleiermacher, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Oscar Wilde.
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