Marriage & Morals among the Victorians and other essays. - HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDE
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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 imagination of the Victorians, the imagination that treasured the complexity of the heart and mind and that sought, by aesthetic means as well as ethical, to adorn and enhance rather than destroy the 'decent drapery of life.' The conventional view of Victorianism-a Family Shakespeare purged of indelicacies, piano legs sheathed in pantaloons, and the works of male and female authors chastely residing on separate shelves-gives way to the subtle and sympathetic analysis of an ethos that combined a profound sense of social and moral responsibility with a remarkable tolerance for idiosyncrasy and individuality. Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians invites us to reconsider the complex and colorful panorama of ideas and attitudes, beliefs and behavior, that ...
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[Auteur: Himmelfarb, Gertrude] [Pagina's: 253] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: London, Faber and Faber] [Jaar: 1986] [Titel: Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians and Other Essays]
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Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, dustjacket, 8vo: xiv, 254pp., chapternotes & references, index. Fine copy. London-Boston, Faber & Faber Ltd. 1986 [Auteur: HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDE] [Jaar: 1986] [Titel: Marriage & Morals among the Victorians and other essays.]
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Original publisher's dark paper-covered boards, silver title spine, red dustjacket, large 8vo: xiv, 254pp., notes, bibliographical notes, index. Fine copy. London-Boston, Faber & Faber. 1986 [Auteur: HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDE] [Jaar: 1986] [Titel: Marriage and Morals among the Victorians.]
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Hardback in goede staat. Gebonden op linnen, ingenaaid. Met stofomslag. Pagina's vergeeld. Engelstalig
