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Who still has `sweetness and light' in studies of Victorian culture and politics?

Authors :
Francis, Mark
Source :
Historical Journal; Dec96, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p1079, 18p
Publication Year :
1996

Abstract

Examines the Victorian culture and politics in Great Britain. Insensitivity of the English masses to the merits of high culture in the late twentieth century; Absence of anthropological relativism in the liberal cultural politics of the Victorian period; Propagation of the liberal political culture by reformers with ambivalent goals.

Subjects

Subjects :
POLITICS & culture

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0018246X
Volume :
39
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Historical Journal
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
306986
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X00024778