Titre :	The Victorian frame of mind, 1830-1870.
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Houghton, Walter E. (Walter Edwards), Auteur
Editeur :	New Haven, Published for Wellesley College by Yale University Press
Année de publication :	c1966
Importance :	467 p.
Format :	24 cm.
Note générale :	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Civilization Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Intellectual life
Index. décimale :	DA 533
Résumé :	The emotional and intellectual attitudes of the Victorian era are carefully scrutinized.
Note de contenu :	Character of the age. The state of society ; The state of the human mind -- Optimism. Reconstruction and history : the revival of hope ; Two utopias of science : great expectations ; Applied science and bigger business : pride and complacency ; Liberation from the burdens of the past : relief and joy -- Anxiety. Fear of revolution ; The danger of atheism ; Worry and fatigue ; The strain of Puritanism ; Ennui and doubt ; Isolation, loneliness, and nostalgia -- The critical spirit -- and the will to believe. Rise of the critical spirit ; The will to believe ; Recoil to authority ; Reliance on authority ; Tension -- Anti-intellectualism. Business ; Democracy, evangelicalism, and doubt -- Dogmatism. Opportunity for the ego ; The rationale of infallibility ; The attraction of dogmatism -- rigidity. Sectarian fervor ; Puritan judgment ; The need for rigidity ; The open and flexible mind -- The commercial spirit. Respectability ; The bourgeois dream ; Success -- The worship of force. Machines and men ; The squirearchy ; The major prophet ; Darwinism, chauvinism, racism ; Puritanism ; Disillusion -- Earnestness. Intellectual earnestness ; Moral earnestness and the religious crisis ; Moral earnestness and the social crisis ; Work -- Enthusiasm. Idealism and the education of the feelings ; Sympathy and benevolence ; Nobility ; Self-development ; Aspiration without an object ; Moral optimism -- Hero worship. Messiah ; Revelation ; Moral inspiration ; Patriotism ; Politics ; Compensation -- Love. Home, sweet home ; Woman ; Sex ; Love -- Hypocrisy. Conformity ; Moral pretension ; Evasion ; Anti-hypocrisy.

The Victorian frame of mind, 1830-1870. [texte imprimé] / Houghton, Walter E. (Walter Edwards), Auteur . - New Haven, Published for Wellesley College by Yale University Press, c1966 . - 467 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Civilization Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Intellectual life
Index. décimale :	DA 533
Résumé :	The emotional and intellectual attitudes of the Victorian era are carefully scrutinized.
Note de contenu :	Character of the age. The state of society ; The state of the human mind -- Optimism. Reconstruction and history : the revival of hope ; Two utopias of science : great expectations ; Applied science and bigger business : pride and complacency ; Liberation from the burdens of the past : relief and joy -- Anxiety. Fear of revolution ; The danger of atheism ; Worry and fatigue ; The strain of Puritanism ; Ennui and doubt ; Isolation, loneliness, and nostalgia -- The critical spirit -- and the will to believe. Rise of the critical spirit ; The will to believe ; Recoil to authority ; Reliance on authority ; Tension -- Anti-intellectualism. Business ; Democracy, evangelicalism, and doubt -- Dogmatism. Opportunity for the ego ; The rationale of infallibility ; The attraction of dogmatism -- rigidity. Sectarian fervor ; Puritan judgment ; The need for rigidity ; The open and flexible mind -- The commercial spirit. Respectability ; The bourgeois dream ; Success -- The worship of force. Machines and men ; The squirearchy ; The major prophet ; Darwinism, chauvinism, racism ; Puritanism ; Disillusion -- Earnestness. Intellectual earnestness ; Moral earnestness and the religious crisis ; Moral earnestness and the social crisis ; Work -- Enthusiasm. Idealism and the education of the feelings ; Sympathy and benevolence ; Nobility ; Self-development ; Aspiration without an object ; Moral optimism -- Hero worship. Messiah ; Revelation ; Moral inspiration ; Patriotism ; Politics ; Compensation -- Love. Home, sweet home ; Woman ; Sex ; Love -- Hypocrisy. Conformity ; Moral pretension ; Evasion ; Anti-hypocrisy.