Modernity and the Victorians by Angus Hawkins HARDBACK 9780192845474

Name: Modernity and the Victorians by Angus Hawkins HARDBACK 9780192845474
Brand: Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Modernity and the VictoriansAuthor(s): Angus Hawkins, Alex Middleton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780192845474, 978-0192845474\nSynopsis\nModernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of nineteenth-century British history. In its place, the book lays out in sweeping terms an alternative conception of the political and social dynamics of the period, centred on the past, morality, and community. Intended in part as a companion volume to Angus Hawkins' previous synthetic study Victorian Political Culture: \""Habits of Heart and Mind\"" [tel], the book offers a deliberately bracing challenge to a swathe of received wisdoms which, it asserts, have misled students of modern Britain. Modernity and the Victo.