The Spirit of the Age Victorian Essays

Introduction The Spirit of the Age 1(17) The Essay as Genre 18(13) Early Victorian England ``Signs of the Times'' (1829) 31(19) Thomas Carlyle ``The Spirit of the Age'' (1831) 50(30) John Stuart Mill ``Civil Disabilities of the Jews'' (1831) 80(11) T. B. Macaulay ``The Snobs of England, by One of Themselves'' (1846--47) 91(16) W. M. Thackeray ``Demoralisation and Total Abstinence'' (1849) 107(12) Charles Dickens Mid-Victorian England ``Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming'' (1855) 119(26) George Eliot ``Dull Government,'' ``Average Government,'' and ``Thinking Government'' (1856) 145(12) Walter Bagehot ``A Few Words on Non-Intervention'' (1859) 157(15) John Stuart Mill ``The Roots of Honour'' (1860) 172(13) John Ruskin ``General Answer to Mr. Kingsley'' (1864) 185(20) John Henry Newman ``Culture and Its Enemies'' (1867) 205(22) Matthew Arnold Late Victorian England ``The History of Freedom in Antiquity'' (1877) 227(21) John E. E. D. Acton ``The Future of Englishwomen: A Reply'' (1878) 248(12) Millicent Garrett Fawcett ```Robert Elsmere': The Battle of Belief'' (1888) 260(20) W. E. Gladstone ``Pages from a Work-Girl's Diary'' (1888) 280(14) Beatrice Webb ``The Soul of Man under Socialism'' (1891) 294(17) Oscar Wilde ``Evolution and Ethics'' (1893) 311 T. H. Huxley