Modernity and the Victorians Hawkins
Modernity and the Victorians Hawkins Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. In its place, the book lays out…
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Modernity and the Victorians Hawkins
Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. 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. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of nineteenth-century British history.
Modernity and the Victorians is at once a piece of twentieth-century intellectual history, a contribution to Intended in part as a companion volume to Angus Hawkins' previous synthetic study Victorian Political Culture: Habits of Heart and Mind (2015), the book offers a deliberately bracing challenge to a swathe of received wisdoms which, it asserts, have misled students of modern Britain.
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