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Feb 1, 2001 · Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians. Paperback – February 1, 2001. In these brilliant essays, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America’s most respected scholars of Victorian thought and culture, explores the many facets, public and private, of the Victorian idea of morality. Incisively and provocatively she illuminates the "moral ...
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Nov 7, 2011 · Marriage and morals among the Victorians, and other essays by Himmelfarb, Gertrude. Publication date 1987 Topics Social history Publisher New York : Vintage Books ...
On the marriages and morality of Victorian-era London. hen Lytton Strachey was asked to propose a toast to his Eminent Victorians, he quoted an eminent Victorian biographer: “When I hear men called ‘judicious’ I suspect them; but when I hear them called ‘judicious and venerable,’ I know they are scoundrels.”.
Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians invites us to reconsider the complex and colorful panorama of ideas and attitudes, beliefs and behavior, that goes under the name of Victorianism―and it reconsiders well our own relation to that much abused and misunderstood culture. “An important book that deserves a wide readership.
by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Knopf. 253 pp. $19.95. There is nothing academic about Gertrude Himmelfarb’s splendid collection of essays, Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians. Unlike those intellectual historians whose pleasure is watching ideas slowly gliding down the vistas of history, splitting apart, combining and recombining, banging ...
Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians invites us to reconsider the complex and colorful panorama of ideas and attitudes, beliefs and behavior, that goes under the name of Victorianism—and it reconsiders well our own relation to that much abused and misunderstood culture. "An important book that deserves a wide readership.
Feb 1, 2001 · Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians invites us to reconsider the complex and colorful panorama of ideas and attitudes, beliefs and behavior, that goes under the name of Victorianism—and it reconsiders well our own relation to that much abused and misunderstood culture. "An important book that deserves a wide readership.
