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Title: After the Victorians : Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain : Essays in Memory of John Clive
Description: London, Routledge, (1994). orig.boards. 24x15cm, x,265 pp. Spine label. Labels to flyleaves.. ISBN: 0415070562. Library rubberstamps to flyleaves and title-page. Good. ¶ 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 is written in honour of the late Professor John Clive of Harvard, and uses, as he did, the method of biography to connnect the public and private lives of the generations who came after the Victorians" - publisher's description.

Keywords: 0415070562 British Social History, Great Britain, Victorian, , , , , ,

Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS011370I