Author: Elizabeth KENNENS
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
An interesting account of an inmate [E. Kennens] of the Liverpool penitentiary: as told by herself to the narrator, a clergyman of the Church of England
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes
Author: Michael Mason
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Victorian sexual moralism was real enough, but what was its nature? The Victorians are often called 'puritanical', with the implication that their sexual moralism was religiously based. It was opposed, we like to think, by freethinkers and progressives, and perhaps also by the working class. Michael Mason has already pointed to the fallacy of such views in his previous volume, The Making of Victorian Sexuality. Here he develops his revisionist account of Victorian sexual ideology and shows that to be 'Victorian' about sex was actually, in its day, to be progressive, optimistic, and modern-minded. Religious beliefs, even in militant form, were only a support for an essentially secular ideal. The Victorian anti-sensual coalition did break down at the end of the century, but the liberationists were old-fashioned reformers, who were often bitterly resisted by, for example, socialists and feminists. This novel and provocative analysis is developed in a series of detailed portraits of crucial movements, episodes, and individuals: the Swedenborgians, Henry James Prince, 'Baron' Renton Nicholson, the 'Vice Society', prostitute rescue, Owenism, neo-Malthusianism, and many more. A formidable array of evidence is assembled for views which strike at the root of conventional wisdom about the English nineteenth century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Victorian sexual moralism was real enough, but what was its nature? The Victorians are often called 'puritanical', with the implication that their sexual moralism was religiously based. It was opposed, we like to think, by freethinkers and progressives, and perhaps also by the working class. Michael Mason has already pointed to the fallacy of such views in his previous volume, The Making of Victorian Sexuality. Here he develops his revisionist account of Victorian sexual ideology and shows that to be 'Victorian' about sex was actually, in its day, to be progressive, optimistic, and modern-minded. Religious beliefs, even in militant form, were only a support for an essentially secular ideal. The Victorian anti-sensual coalition did break down at the end of the century, but the liberationists were old-fashioned reformers, who were often bitterly resisted by, for example, socialists and feminists. This novel and provocative analysis is developed in a series of detailed portraits of crucial movements, episodes, and individuals: the Swedenborgians, Henry James Prince, 'Baron' Renton Nicholson, the 'Vice Society', prostitute rescue, Owenism, neo-Malthusianism, and many more. A formidable array of evidence is assembled for views which strike at the root of conventional wisdom about the English nineteenth century.
Minutes of Evidence Taken of the Departmental Committee on Prisons
Author: Departmental Committee on Prisons
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Category : Prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Category : Prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Rome
Author: John Francis Maguire
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Category : Papal States
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Papal States
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Prison Association of New York
Author: Prison Association of New York
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Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Report of the Commissioners of Prisons and the Directors of Convict Prisons
Author: Great Britain. Prison Commission
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Rome; Its Ruler and Its Institutions
Author: John Francis Maguire
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Category : Papal States
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Publisher:
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Category : Papal States
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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