By Josephine Guy
The Victorian Age introduces scholars of nineteenth-century literary and cultural historical past to the most components of highbrow debate within the Victorian interval. Bringing jointly for the 1st time in a single quantity a variety of basic resource fabric, this anthology supplies readers a special perception into the ways that various parts of Victorian highbrow debate have been interconnected.
The Victorian Age covers advancements in social and political thought, economics, technology and faith, aesthetics, and sexuality and gender, and offers entry to quite a number records that have hitherto been hugely inaccessible - either tough to find and hard to interpret and comprehend. This authoritative anthology contains:
* a basic advent and is the reason many of the ways that the relationships among literary and highbrow tradition will be theorised
* essays describing the historical past to the components of discussion illustrated through the chosen resource documents
* bibliographical notes on all of the files included
* short bills of the popularity and profession of the records' authors.
This quantity will allow humanities scholars, in addition to the final reader, to appreciate complicated parts of debates in an strangely wide variety of disciplines, numerous of that allows you to be unusual.
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2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Its intensity. Its duration. Its certainty or uncertainty. Its propinquity or remoteness. Its fecundity. Its purity. And one other; to wit: 7. Its extent; that is, the number of persons to whom it extends; or (in other words) who are affected by it. V. To take an exact account, then, of the general tendency of any act, by which the interests of the community are affected, proceed as follows. Begin with any one person of those whose interests seem most immediately to be affected by it: and take an account, 1.
Although it was officially approved by an Act of Parliament in 1794, nothing came of the scheme in Bentham’s lifetime. In the early 1800s the editorial work of Etienne Dumont established Bentham’s reputation not only in Britain but also in America and the Continent. Bentham was invited to provided a Code of Law for Russia, Geneva and Portugal and in 1822 published his Codification Proposal. In the meantime his friendship DEFINING SOCIETY with James Mill had led to the publication of a long pamphlet Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism (1817), a defence of democracy.
Those ‘proper conditions’ were naturally the structures and institutions of socialism or communism, rather than those of capitalism. For Marx, the main vehicle for the social and economic transformation of society was violent struggle; by contrast, Hyndman (in keeping with Owenite traditions) emphasised ‘voluntary combination and peaceful endeavour’. This issue of the mechanism and pace of social change – whether evolutionary or revolutionary – was a contentious one in late nineteenth-century British socialism, and disagreements led to two rival socialist organisations: Hyndman’s Social Democratic Federation (accused by its detractors of advocating ‘state socialism’) and the more radical Socialist League led by William Morris.