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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910476796003321
• Autore: Pedersen Susan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon : , : Taylor & Francis, , 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 265 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.48409
• Soggetti: Social movements - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: P.F. Clarke, St John's College, Cambridge; Jeffrey Cox, University of Iowa; Seth Koven, Villanova University; D.L. LeMahieu, Lake Forest College; F.M. Leventhal, Boston University; Standish Meacham, University of Texas; Simon Schama, Center for European Studies, Harvard; Peter Stansky, Stanford University; Chris Waters, Williams College.
• Sommario/riassunto: Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt familiar Victorian values to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture.