Author |
Levine, George, 1931-
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Subject |
English literature -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- 1800-1837 -- Sources.
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Sources.
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Description |
viii, 440 pages ; 21 cm |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-430) and index. |
Contents |
The spirit of the age : some major statements. Signs of the times / Thomas Carlyle ; Characteristics / Thomas Carlyle ; The spirit of the age / John Stuart Mill ; Civilization / John Stuart Mill ; The state and prospects of the country / Robert Southey ; Southey's colloquies on society / T.B. Macaulay -- The march of mind. Crotchet Castle / Thomas Love Peacock ; The life of Napoleon Bonaparte / William Hazlitt ; Periodical literature / James Mill ; The Penny Magazine / Charles Knight ; Preface ; The British Museum ; Practical observations upon the education of the people / Henry Peter Brougham ; A reply to Mr. Brougham's practical observations / E.W. Grinfield ; England and the English / Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- Society and reform. A third lecture on the French Revolution and English boroughmongering / William Cobbett ; The year one / Albany Fonblanque ; The desperate system / William Maginn ; Stages of the revolution / J.W. Croker ; Labor rewarded / William Thompson ; The rotten House of Commons -- Religion. Thoughts on the ministerial commission, Tract #1 / J.H. Newman ; Introduction of rationalist principles into religion, Tract #73 / J.H. Newman ; On the constitution of church and state / S.T. Coleridge ; Principles of church reform / Thomas Arnold ; On amusements / Timothy East ; An inquiry concerning the origins of Christianity / Charles Christian Hennell -- Art and literature. Contrasts / A.W.N. Pugin ; Milton / T.B. Macaulay ; Fiction and matter of fact / Leigh Hunt ; Two essays on poetry / John Stuart Mill ; On some of the characteristics of modern poetry and on the lyrical poems of Alfred Tennyson / Arthur Henry Hallam ; Preface to Philip Van Artevelde / Henry Taylor ; England and the English / Edward Bulwer-Lytton. |
OCLC # |
400413 |
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