Victorian People and IdeasVictorian People and Ideas - 1973 by Richard D. Altick. Read Victorian People and Ideas now at Questia.By Richard D. Altick
The Rise of the Self-Made Man.As previously mentioned, for centuries people largely accepted being a member of the class they were born into, and there was almost no chance of moving up into a higher class – a commoner couldn’t work his way into the aristocracy no matter how hard he ...
This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War", and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the...
“You and I know if we have a chocolate hobnob, we will feel better afterwards, but I don’t know if, in the past, people would have articulated that feeling. From a historical perspective, the closest comparison comes from the mid-Victorian era, when middle-class families were moving to...
The Victorian novel was predominantly a novel of domestic manners, not a novel of ideas. As a general rule, Victorian novelists did not give intellectual propositions the status of themes, or employ characters to debate them - unlike later writers such as Thomas Mann or André Gide. In fact,...
“Watson, come here; I need to see you,” he said, and Watson listened. Bell patented the device under the Bell Telephone Company a year later. It made it feasible to speak with people far apart and converse with one another. This allowed people to communicate with friends and family ...
The solutions and compromises which earlier Victorians had accepted were no longer possible to many people in the 1870's. 展开 年份: 1961 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部来源 求助全文 circle.ubc.ca 相似文献Robert Musil\"s Other Postmodernism: Essayismus, Textual Subjectivity, and the ...
you want to enjoy a day of Victorian-era hobbies and appreciate the simpler things that led us to where we are now, let these ideas serve as a loose schedule. Whether you spend the day on your own or with people you love, you’ll have fun stepping back into a simpler time in ...
Step into our Victorian gentleman's portrait gallery to get costuming hints and sartorial cues from the gentlemen themselves. Our fashion timeline highlights certain details specific to each decade, however you will see that the basics of men's fashion remained remarkably stable. A gentleman would...
Exploration of the beliefs and experiences of Aboriginal people with cancer in Western Australia: a methodology to acknowledge cultural difference and buil... Background Aboriginal Australians experience poorer outcomes, and are 2.5 times more likely to die from cancer than non-Aboriginal people, even...