The Victorian frame of mind, 1830-1870. /Walter E Houghton

By: Walter E HoughtonContributor(s): Walter E HoughtonMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. | ;7/22 ,Ansari Road ,Darya Ganj New Delhi-110002Publication details: New Haven :Published for Wellesley College by Yale University Press , 1957Description: 467 pages ;24 cmISBN: 9780300001228Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.DDC classification: 942.081 HOU
Contents:
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.
Summary: The emotional and intellectual attitudes of the Victorian era are carefully scrutinized.
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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 emotional and intellectual attitudes of the Victorian era are carefully scrutinized.

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