Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect

by Alan Rauch

Book Overview

Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge: encyclopedias, scientific periodicals, instruction manuals, scientific societies, children's literature, mechanics' institutes, museums of natural history, and lending libraries. In Useful Knowledge Alan Rauch presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this new knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082232668X
• ISBN13: 9780822326687
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"