Author : Frank M. Turner
Release : 1984-01-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 574/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain by : Frank M. Turner
Download or read book The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain written by Frank M. Turner. This book was released on 1984-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important new study that seeks to establish what Victorian writers said about Greek culture and how their interpretations both molded and reflected the attitudes and values of the Victorian age. "Turner's readable, intelligent, thorough, witty, and magisterial book discovers and narrates a fundamental strain in British intellectual life from the late eighteenth century until the beginning of World War I. It is THE book on its subject. . . . Turner's study has changed, changed utterly, the Victorian landscape."-Richard Tobias, Victorian Poetry