03621nam 2200601 a 450 991079225570332120230828232822.00-19-151444-61-280-90483-6(CKB)2560000000294998(EBL)422433(OCoLC)476257090(SSID)ssj0000223796(PQKBManifestationID)11173383(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223796(PQKBWorkID)10182709(PQKB)11199762(StDuBDS)EDZ0000022241(MiAaPQ)EBC422433(Au-PeEL)EBL422433(CaPaEBR)ebr10177871(CaONFJC)MIL90483(MiAaPQ)EBC7034982(Au-PeEL)EBL7034982(EXLCZ)99256000000029499820050920d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPolitics and culture in Victorian Britain[electronic resource] essays in memory of Colin Matthew /edited by Peter Ghosh and Lawrence GoldmanOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (274 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-925345-5 0-19-169814-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.A brief word on "politics" and "culture" / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Colin Matthew (1941-1999) / Boyd Hilton -- Colin Matthew : a memoir / Ross McKibbin -- Colin Matthew : a bibliography / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Gladstone and Peel / Peter Ghosh -- Gladstone and a liberal theory of international relations / Martin Ceadel -- The enfranchisement of the urban poor in late-Victorian Britain / John Davis -- The defection of the middle class : the Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party and the 1874 election / Lawrence Goldman -- Liberal passions : reason and emotion in late- and post-Victorian liberal thought / Michael Freeden -- The Church of England and women's higher education, c. 1840-1914 / Janet Howarth -- Protestant histories : James Anthony Froude, partisanship, and national identity / Jane Garnett -- Roman candles : Catholic converts among authors in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Philip Waller -- Scenes from professional life : medicine, moral conduct, and interconnectedness in Middlemarch / Margaret Pelling -- Victorian interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / Jose Harris.How and why should we study Victorian Britain? The answer to this question used to be quite straightforward. It was the Victorian contribution to modern politics which stood out above all else. Today we are not so sure. This book suggest that politics are still central, but must be more broadly construed, as a pervasive part of Victorian culture as a whole. - ;In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious or self-evidently important subject. Facing up to this challenge, the historians who haGreat BritainPolitics and government1837-1901Great BritainCivilization19th century306.20941/09034Ghosh Peter522956Goldman Lawrence1957-119410Matthew H. C. G(Henry Colin Gray)1535485MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792255703321Politics and culture in Victorian Britain3783744UNINA