Makers of nineteenth century culture, 1800-1914

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Makers of nineteenth century culture, 1800-1914

edited by Justin Wintle

(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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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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