Author: Walter E. HoughtonPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870
Author: Walter E. HoughtonThe Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870
Author: Walter E. HoughtonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300194285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
ôIt is now forty years,ö Walter Houghton writes, ôsince Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.öá Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic ôperiod pieces,ö critical and biographical works, and extensive studies of their age, but the Victorian mind itself remains blurred for usùa bundle of various and often paradoxical ideas and attitudes.á Mr. Houghton explores these ideas and attitudes, studies their interrelationships, and traces their simultaneous existence to the general character of the age.á His inquiry is the more important because it demonstrates that to look into the Victorian mind is to see some of the primary sources of the modern mind.
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870, by Walter E. Houghton
Author: Walter E. HoughtonThe Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870
Author: Mabel Driscoll BaileyThe Victorian Frame of Mind 1830-70
Author: W. E. HoughtonThe Victorian Frame of Mind
Author: Walter Edwards HoughtonThe Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1970
Author: Walter Edwards HoughtonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Retreat into the Mind
Author: Ekbert FaasPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400861675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Here Ekbert Faas examines the complex interrelationships among the fields of early psychiatry, poetry, and aesthetics through an in-depth study of the Victorian dramatic monologue and its Romantic antecedents. Discussing the work of over thirty major and minor poets, he focuses on what Victorian critics viewed as an unprecedented psychological school of poetry related to early psychiatry and rooted in the poetic "science of feelings" (Wordsworth). This broad historical perspective enables Faas to redefine our current terminology regarding the dramatic monologue and to document the extent to which early psychiatry shaped the poetry, poetics, and general frame of mind of the Victorians. "In the nineteenth century, English poetry began to explore the psyche in ways contemporaries recognized as new. Wordsworth and Coleridge pioneered what Arnold, Tennyson, and Browning continued. Professor Faas painstakingly documents this, and reactions to it, with reference to simultaneous psychiatric work. Fascinating."--Encounter Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Victorian Frame of Mind 1830-1870
Author: Walter E. HoughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870
Author: Walter E. HoughtonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300001228
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
DIV“It is now forty years,” Walter Houghton writes, “since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.” Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic “period pieces,” critical and biographical works, and extensive studies of their age, but the Victorian mind itself remains blurred for us—a bundle of various and often paradoxical ideas and attitudes. Mr. Houghton explores these ideas and attitudes, studies their interrelationships, and traces their simultaneous existence to the general character of the age. His inquiry is the more important because it demonstrates that to look into the Victorian mind is to see some of the primary sources of the modern mind. /div