Asa Briggs
The Paradoxes of Progress
The Face of the Past: the Preservation of the Medieval Inheritance in Victorian England
By Charles Dellheim
Cambridge University Press 214pp £15 order from our bookshop
This fascinating study of the ways in which the Victorians approached the past reveals far more about Victorian values than volumes of Victorian anthology. Interest either in antiquity or in the middle ages – and the interest could be complementary or antagonistic was not confined to an elite of artists and social critics. It ran like a rich vein throughout the whole society and culture.
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