The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays

Book Overview

A wide-ranging collection of Victorian writings by John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and other leading lights of the era

None of the stereotypes of Victorian England--narrow-minded, inhibited, moralistic, complacent--prepares us for the vitality, variety, and above all extraordinary quality of intellectual life displayed in this volume of essays. Selected and annotated by Gertrude Himmelfarb, a distinguished historian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300151381
• ISBN13: 9780300151381
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"