Author: Eustace ConwayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Eustace Conway: Or, The Brother and Sister. A Novel
Author: Eustace ConwayEustace Conway, Or, The Brother and Sister
Author: Frederick Denison MauricePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Every Saturday
Author: A Kingdom on Earth
Author: Paul T. PhillipsPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271043830
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Social Christianity was a major force in the life of the United States, Canada, and Britain for more than sixty years, beginning in the closing decades of the Victorian age. As a tide of concern swept through Protestantism in the face of mounting social ills, Social Gospelers and Christian Socialists urged a less competitive, more compassionate society. They pioneered in many fields of modern social science and actively engaged in social work and party politics. In A Kingdom on Earth, Paul T. Phillips provides an unusually broad view of the movement from both sides of the Atlantic. He is also unique in carrying the story up to 1940, thereby tying Social Christianity to the origins of the welfare state. Using a wide range of sources, A Kingdom on Earth places the activities of Social Christians firmly in the social and cultural contexts of the day. Phillips's analysis reveals the dilemmas of a movement that sought to achieve social harmony and justice through close cooperation with secular reformism. Such dilemmas invariably led to rivalries with competing ideologies and brought secularizing influences into the churches themselves. In spite of these worldly aspects, however, Phillips finds that the inspiration and essence of the movement were essentially religious.
The 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.
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Author: Carlotta's Intended
Author: Mrs Ruth McEnery StuartPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Literary Gazette
Author: William JerdanCatalogue of Books in the Library of Alexander Bennett M'Grigor
Author: Alexander Bennett MacgrigorPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Church and Stage in Victorian England
Author: Richard FoulkesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521453202
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
During the reign of Queen Victoria, herself an ardent theatregoer as well as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, a remarkable rapprochement was effected between the Church and the stage. This 1997 book explores the implications for the theatre of the great religious movements of the period: Tractarianism, Christian Socialism and Latitudinarianism. This central relationship is seen in the context of other important themes in Victorian cultural history such as censorship, urbanization, transport, leisure, self-improvement and women's emancipation. The volume contains portraits of significant churchmen, dramatists, actors and actresses, including Newman and Keble, Bulwer Lytton and Shaw, Irving, Fanny Kemble and Ellen Terry. They were amongst the influential figures who participated in the search for a common culture which preoccupied the nineteenth century. To the Victorians the Church and the theatre were important parts of everyday life; in this study the two institutions are explored in relation not only to each other but also to the social, economic and intellectual movements of the period.