Author: JARVIS, ADRIAN.
Title: Samuel Smiles and the Construction of Victorian Values.
Description: Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997. 075091128X. 1st edition. Smiles was "solving the 'Condition of England Question' and abandining many of the conventional values of middle-class Victorian Britain he is popularly thought to personify. In their place came an assault on anything he regarded as socially divisive: the remedy lay in cooperation, and the means to that lay in sythesising responses which bridged many of the great controversies of his time." Pp.xvi/176, 16 black & white plates. Black cloth, dustwrapper is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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