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Ben Wilson The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837
"Penguin Press HC, The" 2007 1594201161 / 9781594201165 Hardcover Very Good
"'() Ben Wilson's The Making of Victorian Values is the history of an era rather like our own-a time when dissenters and rebels were hemmed in by conformists and hardheaded authoritarians, a time when a nation on the eve of global domination fretted about its future. It was, however, a period when those who argued that a British empire would be a disaster for liberty were eventually squashed by imperialists, just as those who railed against mindless materialism were in the end rolled over by industrialists and the promoters of luxury goods. The Making of Victorian Values reveals an era when people were obsessed with the need to appear authentic, and yet forever had doubts about who was and who wasn't-concerns familiar to the ''me'' age we know so well. Wilson begins with the libertine spirit inspired by Byron, Shelley, and the Romantics: he ends with the rise and eventual victory of stolid middle-class values. The result is a radical tour de force, a brilliant reworking of the pre-V'''' ID: mon0000075017"
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Ben Wilson The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837
"Penguin Press HC, The" 2007 1594201161 / 9781594201165 Hardcover New
"Clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases.() Ben Wilson's The Making of Victorian Values is the history of an era rather like our own-a time when dissenters and rebels were hemmed in by conformists and hardheaded authoritarians, a time when a nation on the eve of global domination fretted about its future. It was, however, a period when those who argued that a British empire would be a disaster for liberty were eventually squashed by imperialists, just as those who railed against mindless materialism were in the end rolled over by industrialists and the promoters of luxury goods. The Making of Victorian Values reveals an era when people were obsessed with the need to appear authentic, and yet forever had doubts about who was and who wasn't-concerns familiar to the ID: mon0000132532"
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