Victorian prose : an anthology
"This collection of Victorian nonfiction prose juxtaposes classic texts and canonical writers with more obscure writings and authors in order to illuminate important debates in nineteenth-century Britain - inviting modern readers to see the age anew." "With fifty-six substantial selections from many writers, Victorian Prose reaches beyond the standard work of Carlyle, Newman, Mill, Arnold, and Ruskin to uncover a range of lesser-known voices of the era. Women writers are given full attention - compositions by Mary Prince, Dinah M. Craik, Florence Nightingale, Frances P. Cobbe, and Lucie Duff Gordon are among the entries." "Excerpts cover such topics of the Victorian period as British imperialism, the crisis of religious faith, and gender inequities. On the issue of colonial expansion, opinions range from Benjamin Disraeli's celebration of empire-building as evidence of Britain's glory to David Livingstone's promoting commerce with Africa as a way to restrain the slave trade and make it unprofitable. Views on "the woman question" extend from John Stuart Mill's defense of women's rights to Mrs. Humphry Ward's opposition to women's franchise and Sarah Ellis's support for the domestic ideal."--Jacket
History
1 online resource (xxviii, 469 pages)
9780231504782, 9780231110266, 9780231110273, 0231504780, 023111026X, 0231110278
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Introduction Mary Prince Richard Oastler Charlote Elizabeth Tonna Thomas Carlyle Sarah Stickney Ellis Thomas Babington Macaulay John Henry Newman Jane Welsh Carlyle Harriet Martineau Robert Chambers James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth Benjamin Disraeli John Stuart Mill Caroline Norton William Rathbone Greg Charles Darwin Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake William Ewart Gladstone Henry Mayhew Samuel Smiles David Livingstone Percival Leigh William Acton Charlotte Bronte George Henry Lewes John Ruskin Queen Victoria Charles Kingsley Prince Albert Punch George Eliot Herbert Spencer Florence Nightingale Richard Francis Burton Lucie Duff Gordon Frances Power Cobbe Matthew Arnold Thomas Henry Huxley Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Margaret Oliphant William Morris Walter Horatio Pater Edmund William Gosse Mary Arnold [Mrs. Humphry] Ward Oscar Wilde Mary Kingsley Arthur William Symons