UID:
almahu_9949068673402882
Format:
1 online resource (279 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-91178-5
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1-134-91179-3
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1-280-16902-8
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0-203-99275-X
Content:
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〈
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1 Henrietta Barnett 1851-1936; 2 George Alfred Lefroy 1854-1919; 3 Raymond Unwin 1863-1940; 4 Eleanor Rathbone 1872-1946; 5 E.M.Forster 1879-1970; 6 Leonard Woolf 1880-1969; 7 J.M.Keynes 1883-1946; 8 John Reith 1889-1971; 9 J.B.Priestley 1894-1984; 10 John Summerson 1904-1992; 11 John Clive 1924-1990; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-00658-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-07056-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203992753
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