HIGH MINDS: THE VICTORIANS AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN BRITAIN
Book ID/图书代码： 11320013B64826
English Summary/英文概要： Simon Heffer’s new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.
Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her prime minister, and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialisation but by new attitudes to politics, education, women and the working class. That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people - politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers - who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society.
Simon Heffer’s first major new book since the success of Strictly English explores this process of transformation, and will delight readers of similar titles such as A. N. Wilson’s The Victorians. It traces the evolution of British democracy and shows how early laissez-faire attitudes to the lot of the less fortunate turned into campaigns to improve their lives and prospects. It analyses the birth of new attitudes to education, religion and science. And it shows how even such aesthetic issues as taste in architecture were swept in to broader debates about the direction that the country should take. In the process, Simon Heffer looks at the lives and deeds of major politicians, from the devout and principled Gladstone to the unscrupulous Disraeli; at the intellectual arguments that raged among writers and thinkers such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Butler; and at the ’great projects’ of the age, from the Great Exhibition to the Albert Memorial. Drawing heavily on previously unpublished documents, he offers a superbly nuanced insight into life in an extraordinary era, populated by extraordinary people - and how our forebears’ pursuit of perfection gave birth to modern Britain.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1840年代的不列颠是一个穷困缠身，动荡不安的国家，这个国家里有人曾企图要刺杀女王和她的首相，而这时的贵族统治阶级一直生活在畏惧的革命暴乱风潮下。这本书为我们展现了作者对维多利亚时代和维多利亚思想的深入探索。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：对英国的第二个黄金时代，维多利亚时期的一次全新的探索。 参考了大量先前从未发表过的相关文件， Heffer细致入微地再现了那个非凡的时代下的，非凡英国人-，以及这些先辈们是如何对完美进行着孜孜不倦地追求下，造就了现代英国。
About the Author/作者介绍： 生于1960年的Simon Heffer，曾就读于英国剑桥获得现代历史博士学位。他之前的几部作品包括：《正义暴徒》、《重建的英格兰》、《沃恩•威廉斯》和饱受好评的《严谨的英国人》、《政权的简短历史》。在从伦敦新闻界从事了将近30年的职业生涯里，Simon不仅为《每日邮报》、《每日电讯报》和《观察家》报撰写了很多专栏文章，还身居要职。Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD at that university in modern history. His previous books include: Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell, Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England, Vaughan Williams, the highly successful Strictly English and A Short History of Power. In a career of nearly 30 years in Fleet Street he has written columns for and held senior positions on the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator.
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