Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STUDENTS OF history often gloss over 18th century England. T.S. Eliot dismissed it as an age of retired country clergymen and schoolmasters, while that consummate Victorian Matthew Arnold condescendingly termed it. The elegant and indispensable 18th century. Sure, there were plenty of quaint leisurely settings in 18th century England but to generalize in such a way about any lengthy period of history is dangerous, and in this case quite misleading. The age between the turor of the Civil Wars and the clamor of the Industrial Revolution does not boast such climate historical events. Yet studies of 18th century English literature...
...Magic Bullet, his first book, Professor Brandt provides a comprehensive history of venereal disease. He traces the beginnings of venereal disease hysteria to the progressive era, when the future of the Victorian-style family was being threatened by the influences of industrialization, urbanization, and a huge influx of "licentious" immigrants...
...Hawkins, Phillips' managing director. "This has been my busiest month ever," says Rodd McLennan, an antiques dealer in Chelsea. "Mostly because Americans were buying furniture, always furniture: Regency, Biedermeier and English country house." Despite the price hikes, bargains can be found. One American woman talks gleefully of finding some Victorian pressed glass for almost nothing. "We are in pig heaven," she says. "This is play money buying treasures...
...became the general editor of the definitive Clarendon Edition of Eliot's novels and, in 1968, produced a fine, now standard biography. Haight's crowning achievement was an edited and annotated edition of her letters. Largely as a result of these efforts, Eliot has re-emerged whole from the Victorian era, as a novelist and as a woman of uncommon fascination...
...Selections have been judiciously culled from his ninevolume magnum opus. Furnished with explanatory notes, the correspondence may be read as an unselfconscious autobiography recounted in the voice Henry James found as "soft and rich as that of a counselling angel." Eliot also delights in playing the devil with Victorian cant and hypocrisy...