Unmaking Progress: Individual and Social Teleology in Victorian Children's Fiction
Description:
This study contrasts four distinct discursive responses to (or even accidental remarks on) the Victorian concept of individual and/or social improvement, or progress, set forth by the preeminent social critics, writers, scientists, and historians of the nineteenth century, such as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Macaulay Matthew Arnold, Charles Darwin, and Herbert Spencer. This teleological ideal, perhaps the most prevalent ideology of the long nineteenth century, originates with the P…
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Date:
May 2011
Creator:
Jones, Justin T.
Partner:
UNT Libraries