The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837 by Ben Wilson, Ben Wilson
The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837
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Ben Wilson, Ben Wilson
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The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837

Ben Wilson, Ben Wilson

445 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Wilson begins with the libertine spirit inspired by Byron, Shelley, and the Romantics; he ends with the rise and eventual victory of stolid middle-class values. The result is a radical tour de force, a brilliant reworking of the pre-Victorian age....

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