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Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain
Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew

Edited by Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman

Price: £69.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925345-6
Publication date: 9 March 2006
280 pages, frontispiece, 8 tables, 234x156 mm
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Reviews
  • '...the essays are generally of a high quality.' - Contemporary Review, Volume 288

Description
  • An important re-evaluation of the ways in which we study Victorian Britain
  • Leading historians explore the interface between politics and culture
In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious or self-evidently important subject. Facing up to this challenge, the historians who have contributed to this volume explore central aspects of that history. They continue to uphold the centrality of politics to Victorian Britain, but suggest that politics must be viewed more broadly, as a concern pervading almost all spheres of life, just as Victorians themselves would have done. In this way politics penetrates into Victorian culture. 'Politics' can lead us into the ideas governing political action itself; political ideas; international relations; the eduction of men and women; the writing of history and of literature; engagement with past political theorists; and the ideas behind professionalization. Such are some of the themes taken up here.

The specific occasion for these essays was as a tribute to the memory of the late Colin Matthew, one of the most eminent recent historians of Victorian Britain, who was himself determined to uphold the contemporary relevance of Victorian political tradition, and to explore the interface between 'politics' and 'culture'. Reflection on his intellectual achievement is a second distinctive component of this book.

Readership: Scholars and students of modern British history; specialists in Victorian Studies

Contents
1. A Brief Word on 'Politics' and 'Culture' , Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman
2. Colin Matthew 1941-1999 , Boyd Hilton
3. Colin Matthew: A Memoir , Ross McKibbin
4. Colin Matthew: A Bibliography , Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman
5. Gladstone and Peel , Peter Ghosh
6. Gladstone and a Liberal Theory of International Relations , Martin Ceadel
7. The Enfranchisement of the Urban Poor in Victorian Britain , John Davis
8. The Defection of the Middle Class: The Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party, and the 1874 Election , Lawrence Goldman
9. Liberal Passions: Reason and Emotion in Late and Post-Victorian Liberal Thought , Michael Freeden
10. The Church of England and Women's Higher Education c .1840-1914 , Janet Howarth
11. Protestant Histories: James Anthony Froude, Partisanship, and National Identity , Jane Garnett
12. Roman Candles: Literary Converts in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain , Philip Waller
13. Scenes from Professional Life: Medicine, Moral Conduct and Inter-connectedness in Middlemarch , Margaret Pelling
14. Victorian Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes , Jose Harris
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Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Peter Ghosh, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Anne's College, Oxford and
Lawrence Goldman, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Peter's College, Oxford


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More in the same subject area:
History of ideas, intellectual history
British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900

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