Samuel Smiles And The Victorian Work Ethic

Author : Tim Travers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317242871

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Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic by Tim Travers Pdf

Samuel Smiles is best known for his book Self Help (1859), which many have assumed to be an encouragement to social and financial success. However, Smiles actually argued against the single-minded pursuit of success, and in favour of the protean formation of character as the ultimate goal of life. First published in 1987, this book examines Samuel Smiles’ ideals of work and self-help against the background of the Victorian work ethic. Drawing on ‘sub-literature’ such as pamphlets, periodicals, novels, works by Dissenting and Anglican ministers, popular ‘success’ and ‘self-improvement’ books, and general literature on the condition of the working classes, it presents a broad range of public opinion and attitudes towards work and in doing so, creates an essential framework and context for Smiles’ popular books. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and ideology.

Author : Timothy Hugh Eaton Travers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1013270007

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Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic by Timothy Hugh Eaton Travers Pdf

Author : Timothy Travers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : OCLC:15356247

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Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic by Timothy Travers Pdf

Author : Samuel Smiles
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547366218

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Character by Samuel Smiles Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Character" by Samuel Smiles. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Adrian Jarvis
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019497457

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Samuel Smiles and the Construction of Victorian Values by Adrian Jarvis Pdf

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) is remembered as the popular moralist who wrote Self-Help and the Lives of the Engineers yet his considerable output numbered around thirty books, another thirty pamphlets and hundreds of articles. His work was extremely popular, particularly from the 1860s to the 1890s, and he was, for a time, a considerable celebrity. This new work is the first not only to examine Smiles as a whole but also to identify the unifying theme of his work. He was, according to Jarvis, solving the 'Condition of England Question' and abandoning many of the conventional values of middle-class Victorian Britain he is popularly thought to personify. In their place came an assault on anything he regarded as socially divisive: the remedy lay in cooperation, and the means to that lay in synthesising responses which bridged many of the great controversies of his time. Smiles is still highly relevant for many today, although not always for the right reasons. His work lives on as a formative influence in the way we approach the history of technology but a distorted image of him as an advocate of individual responsibility and a critic of over-government led to his emergence as the darling of the Tory right in the l980s. Jarvis' controversial biography aims to set the record straight, revealing the truth about this hugely influential character and his significance for both Victorian and late twentieth-century society.

Author : Rosemary J. Mundhenk,LuAnn McCracken Fletcher
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231504780

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Victorian Prose by Rosemary J. Mundhenk,LuAnn McCracken Fletcher Pdf

This engaging, informative collection of Victorian nonfiction prose juxtaposes classic texts and canonical writers with more obscure writings and authors in order to illuminate important debates in nineteenth-century Britain—inviting modern readers to see the age anew. The collection represents the voices of a broad scope of women and men on a range of nineteenth-century cultural issues and in various forms—from periodical essays to travel accounts, letters to lectures, and autobiographies to social surveys. With its fifty-six substantial selections, Victorian Prose reaches beyond the work of Carlyle, Newman, Mill, Arnold, and Ruskin to uncover an array of lesser-known voices of the era. Women writers are given full attention—writings by Mary Prince, Dinah M. Craik, Florence Nightingale, Frances P. Cobbe, and Lucie Duff Gordon are among the entries. Excerpts cover such topics of the age as British imperialism, the crisis of religious faith, and debates about gender. On the issue of colonial expansion, opinions range from Benjamin Disraeli's celebration of empire-building as evidence of Britain's glory to David Livingstone's promotion of commerce with Africa as a way to retard the slave trade and make it unprofitable. Views on "the woman question" extend from John Stuart Mill's defense of women's rights to Mrs. Humphry Ward's opposition to women's franchise and Sarah Ellis's support for the domestic ideal. This invaluable resource features: attention to important noncanonical writers—including a generous selection of women writers; a wide range of written forms, including periodical essays, travel accounts, letters, lectures, autobiographies, and social surveys; both chronological and thematic tables of contents—the latter encompassing subject areas such as England at home and abroad, the new sciences, religion, and the status of women; selections drawn from the original nineteenth-century editions; and annotations to each text that aid nonspecialists in understanding unfamiliar names, terms, and cultural debates.

Author : Juliette Atkinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191591433

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Victorian Biography Reconsidered by Juliette Atkinson Pdf

In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly preoccupied with 'Great Men'. Yet a significant number of Victorians had already broken ranks to write the lives of humble, unsuccessful, or neglected men and women. Victorian Biography Reconsidered seeks to uncover and assess this trend. The book begins with an overview of Victorian biography followed by a reflection on how the bagginess of nineteenth-century hero-worship enabled new subjects to emerge. Biographies of 'hidden' lives are then scrutinized through chapters on the lives of humble naturalists, failed destinies, minor women writers, neglected Romantic poets rescued by Victorian biographers, and, finally, the Dictionary of National Biography. In its conclusion, the book briefly discusses how Virginia Woolf absorbed earlier biographical trends before redirecting the representation of 'hidden' lives. Victorian Biography Reconsidered argues that, often paradoxically, nineteenth-century biographers regarded the public sphere with intense wariness. At a time of instability for men of letters, biographers embraced the role of mediators in a manner that asserted their own cultural authority. Frequently, they showed little interest in vouchsafing immortality for their unknown or forgotten subjects, but strove instead to provoke amongst their readers a feeling of gratitude for the hidden labour that sustained the nation and an appreciation for the writers who had brought it to their attention.

Author : Mark Towsey,Kyle B. Roberts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004348677

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Before the Public Library by Mark Towsey,Kyle B. Roberts Pdf

Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.

Author : Vanessa Ogle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674737020

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The Global Transformation of Time by Vanessa Ogle Pdf

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.

Author : Rebecca Richardson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421441962

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Material Ambitions by Rebecca Richardson Pdf

"The book traces the early history of the self-help genre and the literary depiction of ambition in Victorian British fiction. Stories of hardworking characters who bring themselves out of rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In chapters featuring the works of novelists, the author demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition and problematized it as well"--

Author : John Price
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441136756

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Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian by John Price Pdf

Heroism in the 19th and early 20th centuries is synonymous with military endeavours, imperial adventures and the 'great men of history'. There was, however, another prominent and influential strand of the idea which has, until now, been largely overlooked. This book seeks to address this oversight and establish new avenues of study by revealing and examining 'everyday' heroism; acts of life-risking bravery, undertaken by otherwise ordinary individuals, largely in the course of their daily lives and within quotidian surroundings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, John Price charts and investigates the growth and development of this important discourse, presenting in-depth case studies of The Albert Medal and the Carnegie Hero Fund alongside a nationwide analysis of heroism monuments and an exploration of radical approaches to the concept. Unlike its military and imperial counterparts, everyday heroism embraced the heroine and this study reflects that with an examination of female heroism. Discovering why certain individuals or acts were accorded the status of being 'heroic' also provides insights into those that recognized them. Heroism is a flexible and malleable constellation of ideas, shaped or constructed along different lines by different people, so if you want to identify the characteristics of a group or society, much can be learnt by studying those it holds up as heroic. Consequently, Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian provides valuable and revealing evidence for a wide range of social and cultural topics including; class, gender, identity, memory, celebrity, and literary and visual culture.

Author : John Powell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313096679

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Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences by John Powell Pdf

Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic and idiosyncratic. In this biographical dictionary, research devoted specifically to the reading habits of 19th century individuals who shaped Western culture is brought together for the first time. While giving prominent coverage to literary and political figures, the volume's 270 entries also include musicians, painters, educators, and explorers. Each entry includes brief biographical information, a concise summary of literary influences on the subject, and clear direction for further research. The book provides a practical tool for scholars wishing to trace the reading experience of important Western cultural figures. Subjects were selected from the people most responsible for the cultural development of Europe, Britain and the British Empire, and the Americas between 1800 and 1914. Although selective, the sample of 270 figures is substantial enough to suggest broad, cross-cultural habits and effects, enabling scholars to better understand the relationship between reading and culture. In an introductory essay, Powell explores the patterns and relationships that can be discerned from the entries. The first of three anticipated volumes, the book is an important step forward in researching the role of reading in cultural development.

Author : Catriona Kelly
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191541681

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Refining Russia by Catriona Kelly Pdf

Advice literature (etiquette manuals, guides to hygiene and house management, and treatises on upbringing) enjoyed massive popularity in Russia between the late eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries. It reflected changing attitudes to appropriate behaviour in private and public, to the acquisition of possessions, and not least to national identity (for many Russians, reading how-to books was seen as a way of 'learning how to be a Westerner'). Written or translated by members of the cultural elite trying to encourage what they saw as civilized behaviour, advice literature was also a conduit for changing views of mass readers and of their place in society. This important and engaging book is the first systematic exploration of this hitherto neglected genre of popular printed text. It examines the evolution of advice literature from the Enlightenment to the post-Soviet era, from translations of Fénelon and Madame de Lambert in the 1760s and of Samuel Smiles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to tracts by Gogol and Tolstoi, Soviet pamphlets on 'how to be cultured', and post-Soviet guides to 'window treatments'. It draws on a huge range of sources - memoirs, 'novelised conduct books' such as Anna Karenina, parody advice literature, letters, and reviews - to examine the broader significance of how-to books, and their relationship with daily life (byt) as construct and as lived reality. The result is a book that not only makes a major contribution to the study of popular culture, but also throws an unexpected and revealing light on Russian history more broadly.

Author : Timothy Gao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108837163

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Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel by Timothy Gao Pdf

Virtual, paracosmic, fictional -- Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte -- Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope -- Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray -- Description, projection, and Charles.

Author : Adrian Jarvis
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004053275

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Samuel Smiles and the Construction of Victorian Values by Adrian Jarvis Pdf

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) is remembered as the popular moralist who wrote Self-Help and the Lives of the Engineers yet his considerable output numbered around thirty books, another thirty pamphlets and hundreds of articles. His work was extremely popular, particularly from the 1860s to the 1890s, and he was, for a time, a considerable celebrity. This new work is the first not only to examine Smiles as a whole but also to identify the unifying theme of his work. He was, according to Jarvis, solving the 'Condition of England Question' and abandoning many of the conventional values of middle-class Victorian Britain he is popularly thought to personify. In their place came an assault on anything he regarded as socially divisive: the remedy lay in cooperation, and the means to that lay in synthesising responses which bridged many of the great controversies of his time. Smiles is still highly relevant for many today, although not always for the right reasons. His work lives on as a formative influence in the way we approach the history of technology but a distorted image of him as an advocate of individual responsibility and a critic of over-government led to his emergence as the darling of the Tory right in the l980s. Jarvis' controversial biography aims to set the record straight, revealing the truth about this hugely influential character and his significance for both Victorian and late twentieth-century society.