Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
ISBN:
9780718841775
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0718841778
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9780718841782
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0718841786
Inhalt:
Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringin
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Front cover; Kilvert's World of Wonders; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue -- 'Some Great Change Must Take Place'; Chapter 1. Piety, Progress and Print: Kilvert's Background; Chapter 2. Nature's Classroom; Chapter 3. Kilvert the Naturalist; Chapter 4. Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways; Chapter 5. Kilvert and Science and Technology; Chapter 6. Natural Law and the Mind; Chapter 7. Kilvert and Tyndall; Chapter 8. Miracles and Wonders; Chapter 9. Kilvert and Teaching; Chapter 10. Museums and Picture Galleries; Chapter 11. The Christian Geographer.
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Chapter 12. 'Plunging into Ancient Chaos': Kilvert and EvolutionReferences; Select Bibliography; Back cover.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Toman, John Kilvert's World of Wonders : Growing up in Mid-Victorian England Havertown : Lutterworth Press, ©2013 ISBN 9780718893019
Sprache:
Englisch
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