Victorian Thinkers: Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold, MorrisOxford University Press, 1993 - 428 Seiten Victorian Thinkers contains studies of four of the most influential critics of nineteenth-century British culture. Each was heralded as a prophet in his own lifetime, yet each was also regarded as misguided--even mad--by his contemporaries. Thomas Carlyle, writer of extraordinary stature, radical in thought and style; John Ruskin, who began his career as a critic of painting and architecture and whose views developed to include critiques of economics and social welfare; Matthew Arnold, poet and literary critic, a definer of 'culture' who later turned to social issues; and William Morris, renowned for his work as an artist and designer, champion of a revolutionary socialism which would honor the civilizing effects of the arts. Small masterpieces of insight and concision, this volume offers a perfect introduction to the Victorian era. |
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... become an inescapable , if also oddly nebulous , presence in modern intellectual life . Indisputably , he has exercised an immense , perhaps decisive , influence over our whole way of talking about ' culture ' and its role as a possible ...
... become an inescapable , if also oddly nebulous , presence in modern intellectual life . Indisputably , he has exercised an immense , perhaps decisive , influence over our whole way of talking about ' culture ' and its role as a possible ...
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... become the kinds of people that it is morally desirable we should become . And a crucial part of this , especially in Arnold's later writings , is the way the most noble or elevated poetry reconciles us to the universe , gives us that ...
... become the kinds of people that it is morally desirable we should become . And a crucial part of this , especially in Arnold's later writings , is the way the most noble or elevated poetry reconciles us to the universe , gives us that ...
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... become barbarians ; which latter fate I must confess would not seem to me a very dreadful one . ... Certainly the book's values - turning away from ' useless toil ' to ' useful work ' , living more with the senses , cherishing nature ...
... become barbarians ; which latter fate I must confess would not seem to me a very dreadful one . ... Certainly the book's values - turning away from ' useless toil ' to ' useful work ' , living more with the senses , cherishing nature ...
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Contents Abbreviations | 7 |
Early years | 9 |
Sartor Resartus | 26 |
Urheberrecht | |
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