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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348234403321

Titolo

After the Victorians : private conscience and public duty in modern Britain : essays in memory of John Clive / / edited by Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-91178-5

1-134-91179-3

1-280-16902-8

0-203-99275-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CliveJohn Leonard <1924->

PedersenSusan <1959->

MandlerPeter

Disciplina

303.4/84/0941

303.4840941

920.041

Soggetti

Social reformers - Great Britain

Social movements - Great Britain

Civic leaders - Great Britain

Intellectuals - Great Britain

Duty

Conscience

Electronic books.

Great Britain Social conditions 20th century

Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1 Henrietta Barnett 1851-1936; 2 George Alfred Lefroy 1854-1919; 3 Raymond Unwin 1863-1940; 4 Eleanor Rathbone 1872-1946; 5 E.M.Forster 1879-1970; 6 Leonard Woolf 1880-1969; 7 J.M.Keynes 1883-1946; 8 John Reith 1889-1971; 9 J.B.Priestley 1894-



1984; 10 John Summerson 1904-1992; 11 John Clive 1924-1990; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domesticity', `conscience' and `improvement' to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. Covering such figures as J.M. Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lord Reith of the BBC, these interdisciplinary studies scrutinize the children of the Victorians at a time when their private assumptions and public positions were under increasing strain in a rapidly changing world.   After the Victorians<