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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... never spiritually . All his later references to his religious upbringing are nostalgic : the unquestioning faith of his parents ' generation came to be for him one of the hallmarks of the healthy condition of a man or a society , and ...
... never spiritually . All his later references to his religious upbringing are nostalgic : the unquestioning faith of his parents ' generation came to be for him one of the hallmarks of the healthy condition of a man or a society , and ...
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... never have the character of the highest class of compositions . But , on the other hand , the shallow and conventional arrangements commonly called ' compositions ' by the artists of the present day , are infinitely farther from great ...
... never have the character of the highest class of compositions . But , on the other hand , the shallow and conventional arrangements commonly called ' compositions ' by the artists of the present day , are infinitely farther from great ...
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... never did justice to comedy - indeed , scarcely paid attention to it in his major critical manifestos . He prized the epic above all forms of poetry , but undervalued wit and satire . In not regarding the Metaphysical Poets of the ...
... never did justice to comedy - indeed , scarcely paid attention to it in his major critical manifestos . He prized the epic above all forms of poetry , but undervalued wit and satire . In not regarding the Metaphysical Poets of the ...
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Contents Abbreviations | 7 |
Early years | 9 |
Sartor Resartus | 26 |
Urheberrecht | |
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