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The Victorian Age made one or two mistakes, but they were mistakes that were really useful; that is, mistakes that were really mistaken. They thought that commerce outside a country must extend peace: it has certainly often extended war. They thought that commerce inside a country must certainly promote prosperity; it has largely promoted poverty. But for them these were experiments; for us they ought to be lessons. If we continue the capitalist use of the populace — if we continue the capitalist use of external arms, it will lie heavy on the living. The dishonour will not be on the dead. — G. K. Chesterton
Queen Victoria
The main currents of Victorianism — some attempts at definition
- Victorians and Victorianism — an Introduction
- Victorianism as a Fusion of Neoclassical and Romantic Ideas and Attitudes
- Timothy Mole on the Victorian Invention of Modernity
- The Complex Realities of Victorianism
- Main Currents in Victorian Intellectual History — Some Handy Oversimplifications
- “How they Shone!” Tracing the Change in English Thought and Feeling, 1850-1900
- How to go about understanding the Victorian age (Chesterton, 1913)
- Three main trends of Victorian thought: Utilitarianism, the Oxford Movement, and Romantic Protestantism (Chesterton, 1913)
- Victorian Respectability and the battle for refinement and civilization
- Music and the Victorian Mind
- Victorian Attempt to to Create a “National Pantheon”
- [Review of] The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism. edited by Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner
Observations, Reminiscences
- Forgetting Obvious Things: The legacy of the Victorians?
- Stained Glass and Gaslight — Darkness, Smog, and a Little Light in Victorian Cities
- The fundamental conflicts of Victorian poetry
- Density and Elaborate Interconnectedness of High and Late Victorian culture
- The Difficulties of Victorian Poetry — Browning, Hopkins, Swinburne, Tennyson
- Shades of Yellow: The Representation of Change and Decay in Victorian Literature
- Victorian Doubt and Victorian Architecture
- What was Victorian taste, really?
- Victorian Design: A Sitemap
- Race in Thought and Science
- Victorian Earnestness
- Victorian dislike of direct exploration or exhibition of the self in literature
- The Seaside in the Victorian Literary Imagination
- Tennyson and Victorianism
- The Victorian Gentleman
- Crisis of Organized Religion
- The Last of the Victorians: June 2008
- Reading and Teaching the Victorians
- Neo-Victorianism; or Rewriting the Long Nineteenth Century
- A Late Nineteenth-Century View of Recent Social Theory, Politics, and Literature
- Poetry, Public Monuments, and Postcards — a review of Timothy Mole’s What the Victorians Made of Romanticism
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