The de-moralization of society : from Victorian virtues to modern values / Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Bib ID:
- 550223
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Himmelfarb, Gertrude
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995, c1994
- x, 314 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0679438173
- Summary:
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Gertrude Himmelfarb, like so many Americans, is appalled by crime, drug addiction, illiteracy, juvenile delinquency, illegitimacy and welfare dependency. The solution she proposes, in this follow-up to her much-praised On Looking into the Abyss, is as simple as it is radical - and has the further advantage of solid historical substantiation. We must look back on the Victorians with open minds; they must cease to irk us. And then, Himmelfarb hopes, we can begin to learn from them.
- Full contents:
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- Prologue: From Virtues to Values
- I. Manners and Morals
- II. Household Gods and Goddesses
- III. Feminism, Victorian Style
- IV. "The Mischievous Ambiguity of the Word Poor"
- V. "Gain All You Can.... Give All You Can"
- VI. The Jew as Victorian
- VII. The New Women and the New Men
- Epilogue: A De-moralized Society
- Postscript: The "New Victorians" and the Old.
- Notes:
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- "... a Borzoi book" -- T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-306) and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Demoralization of society
- Copyright:
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