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Author Newsome, David, 1929-2004

Title The Victorian world picture : perceptions and introspections in an age of change / David Newsome.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1997.
©1997

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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  941.081 N47V    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  941.081 N558V    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  941.081 NEWSOME    Check Shelf
Description x, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction : observation of one's times -- pt. I : Looking inwards -- It has all been so sudden -- It's this steam, you see -- The poor in a loop is bad -- The spirit of utility -- What is it to be a gentleman? -- God preserve me from being poor -- pt. II : Looking outwards -- Rule, Britannia! -- Entering upon most dangerous times -- Our approaching decrepitude -- The British Empire divinely ordained -- pt. III : Looking before and after -- The favourite reading -- Great men are profitable company -- For was, and is, and will be -- Doat upon the Middle Ages -- pt. IV : Looking beyond -- An after-life -- Mr. Darwin's theory not atheistical -- This world's no blot for us -- pt. V : Looking ahead -- Mammon worship a melancholy creed -- Everything was going to be different -- Conclusion : looking retrospectively.
Note Originally published: London : J. Murray, 1997.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-294) and index.
Subject Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Social change -- Historiography.
World history -- Historiography.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Historiography.
Great Britain -- Relations -- Foreign countries -- Historiography.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
ISBN 0813524547 alkaline paper
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