Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth Century Society

by Gordon Marsden (Author)

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  1990

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  Because of Queen Victoria's long reign, we distinguish between early, middle and late-Victorian, but in a period of continuing change there was never any full agreement about what Victorian values really were, and during the late-Victorian years there was a sustained attack on those values which had been dominant during the mid-Victorian period. Whatever the reasons for the current interest in Victorian values, we are still not out of a society and culture which feels it necessary to appeal to them. This collection of articles on Victorian values, reprinted from History Today , focuses on the diverse experience of Victorian life and society, including the double standards in relation to sex and the psychological issues of character and will.