Chesterton cuts the Victorian age along the grain of its ideas rather than its dates. He describes the Victorian compromise and its rebels, from Carlyle and Newman to Ruskin; the great novelists, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës and George Eliot; the great poets, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne; and the break-up of the compromise at the century’s end.
A brilliant, quotable short history, as much argument as survey, for anyone who reads the Victorians. Download the free EPUB.