ABSTRACT

First Published in 1966. This volume is selected collection of what can be constituted as ‘Victorian Temper’ with parallel motifs in Victorian painting and in the plastic arts, The author draws most freely upon literary sources, including a good many minor writers whose work, whatever its subsequent fate, was in its day broadly representative. He has sought an interpretation of what might be called the Victorian temper rather than a reappraisal of Victorian talents.

chapter I|13 pages

"victorianism"

chapter II|27 pages

The Anti-romantics

chapter III|25 pages

The Spasmodic School

chapter IV|23 pages

Tennyson—the Two Voices

chapter V|24 pages

The Pattern of Conversion

chapter VI|15 pages

God and Mammon

chapter VII|19 pages

Victorian Taste

chapter VIII|18 pages

The Moral Aesthetic

chapter IX|26 pages

The Fear of Art

chapter X|24 pages

The Revolt from Reason

chapter XI|19 pages

The 'aesthetic" Eighties

chapter XII|23 pages

The Decadence and After