The year that shaped the Victorian age : lives, loves and letters of 1845
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The year that shaped the Victorian age : lives, loves and letters of 1845
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-450) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In his much-anticipated new book, one of the leading authorities on the Victorian age argues that this was the critical year in a decade which witnessed revolution on continental Europe, the threat of mass insurrection at home and radical developments in railway transport, communications, religion, literature and the arts. The effects of the new poor law now became visible in the workhouses; a potato blight started in Ireland, heralding the Great Famine; and the Church of England was rocked to its foundations by John Henry Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism. What Victorian England became was moulded, says Michael Wheeler, in the crucible of 1845. Exploring pivotal correspondence, together with pamphlets, articles and cartoons, the author tells the riveting story of a seismic epoch through the lives, loves and letters of leading contemporaneous figures.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Public Scandals: 1. Opening Mazzini's mail: Sir James Graham and the Post Office
- 2. The railway juggernaut: Delane, Dickens and the press
- 3. Poor law bastille: the Andover workhouse scandal
- Part II. Private Lives: 4. Love by post: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
- 5. Letters from the Continent: Ruskin in Italy
- 6. Letters of the living and the dead: Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
- Part III. Oxford Movements: 7. Established church in crisis: William George Ward and the Oxford Movement
- 8. A dangerous correspondence: Newman on the road to Rome
- Part IV. Irish Questions: 9. Educating papist priests: Gladstone and the Maynooth grant
- 10. From our own Commissioner: Daniel O'Connell and The Times
- 11. A prime minister resigns: Peel and the Corn Laws
- Afterword.
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