Religion in Victorian London, Jacob W. M.

Автор: Frances Knight
Название: Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siecle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age
ISBN: 1780768915 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780768915
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Frances Knight shows how late Victorian Britain reacted to the bold agendas being set by the thinkers of the fin de siecle

Автор: Seth Alexander Thevoz
Название: Club Government: How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs
ISBN: 1838604669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838604660
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The book phenomenon of Club Government' in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the functions of government were alleged to have taken place behind closed doors, in the secretive clubs of London's St. James's district, has not been adequately historicized. Despite Club Government' being referenced in most major political histories of the period, it is a topic which has never before enjoyed a full-length study. Making use of previously-sealed club archives, and adopting a broad range of analytical techniques, this work of political history, social history, sociology and quantitative approaches to history seeks to deepen our understanding of the distinctive and novel ways in which British political culture evolved in this period. The book concludes that historians have hugely underestimated the extent of club influence on high politics' in Westminster, and though the reputation of clubs for intervening in elections was exaggerated, the culture and secrecy involved in gentleman's clubs had a huge impact on Britain and the British Empire.

Название: Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society
ISBN: 0415867738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415867733
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This volume of eleven specially commissioned essays celebrates the work of Robert K. Webb, one of the foremost historians of modern Britain. The contributors address some of the central themes in the history of nineteenth-century religion.

Автор: Lavoie Jeffrey
Название: A Search for Meaning in Victorian Religion: The Spiritual Journey and Esoteric Teachings of Charles Carleton Massey
ISBN: 1611461847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611461848
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Описание: This indispensable work combines Massey`s collected writings with never before published letters organized topically in order to define Massey`s unique world-view for a new generation of readers.

Автор: Goldhill Simon
Название: A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
ISBN: 022652728X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226527284
Издательство: Wiley
Цена: 25350.00 T
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Описание: "We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind."

So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria's reign, while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm--the prime minister once wondered whether she was "the cleverest woman in England or in Europe." The couple's six precocious children included E. F. Benson, celebrated creator of the Mapp and Lucia novels, and Margaret Benson, the first published female Egyptologist.

What interests Simon Goldhill most, however, is what went on behind the scenes, which was even more unusual than anyone could imagine. Inveterate writers, the Benson family spun out novels, essays, and thousands of letters that open stunning new perspectives--including what it might mean for an adult to kiss and propose marriage to a twelve-year-old girl, how religion in a family could support or destroy relationships, or how the death of a child could be celebrated. No other family has left such detailed records about their most intimate moments, and in these remarkable accounts, we see how family life and a family's understanding of itself took shape during a time when psychoanalysis, scientific and historical challenges to religion, and new ways of thinking about society were developing. This is the story of the Bensons, but it is also more than that--it is the story of how society transitioned from the high Victorian period into modernity.

Автор: Mcleod
Название: Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City
ISBN: 1138640298 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138640290
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 1974, this book describes the religion of the East End, the West End, and the suburbs of London, where each section of society - as well as a variety of immigrant groups - has its own quarters, its own institutions, its distinctive codes of behaviour.

Автор: Devon Fisher
Название: Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature: Conservatism, Liberalism, and the Emergence of Secular Culture
ISBN: 1409431142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409431145
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Описание: Offering readings of nineteenth-century travel narratives, works by Tractarians, the early writings of Charles Kingsley and the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, Fisher examines representations of Roman Catholic saints in Victorian literature to assess both the relationship between conservative thought and liberalism and the emergence of a secular culture during the period.

Автор: Nigel Scotland
Название: Squires in the Slums: Settlements and Missions in Late Victorian Britain
ISBN: 1350173843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350173842
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Settlements were a distinctive aspect of late-Victorian church life in which individual philanthropic Christians were encouraged to live and work in communities amongst the poor and set an example for the underprivileged through their own actions. Often overlooked by historians, settlements are of great value in understanding the values and culture of the 19th century. Settlement missions were first conceived when Samuel Barnett, the incumbent of St. Jude's, Whitechapel, in the East End of London, sought to introduce them as a major aspect of Victorian church life. Barnett argued that settlers should be incorporated into London communities that suffered from squalor and poverty to live and work alongside the poor, to demonstrate their Christian faith and attempt to enhance social conditions from the inside. His first recruits were Oxford undergraduates and when Toynbee Hall was founded in Oxford in 1884, his radical vision of adapting Christian morality towards tackling social deprivation had begun. By the end of the Victorian era more than fifty similar institutions had been created.Whilst few settlements lasted beyond the Victorian period, by injecting Christian ethics into trade unions, local government and the community, they had a huge impact which is still felt in the way these organisations operate today.

Автор: Gloria Clifton
Название: Professionalism, Patronage and Public Service in Victorian London: The Staff of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1856-1889
ISBN: 1474241212 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474241212
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.

Автор: Matthew L. Newsom Kerr
Название: Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London
ISBN: 3319657674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319657677
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: ГЇВїВЅ This book is a history of London`s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways.

Автор: Andersson Peter
Название: Streetlife in Late Victorian London
ISBN: 1137320893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137320896
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Focusing on the everyday behaviour of people in the late-Victorian street, this extensive study provides an alternative history of the modern city, and sheds new light on the relationship between police constables and civilians. A wealth of source material is scrutinised to explore this public interaction in the capital.

Автор: De Sapio Joseph
Название: Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London
ISBN: 1137407204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137407207
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated political, social, and commercial paradigms of the Victorian years.