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Antiques.(Victorian era)
That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667, Book 8, lines 191-194
The nineteenth century in France and England was the golden age of private life. Children came to be regarded as unique personalities in their own right, and there was a new exaltation of self in literature and art. Where the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century conceived of man as a noble creature of reason, the romantics of the nineteenth century singled out individuals, each distinctive and in their own way mysterious.
Public and private life were walled off from each other in the nineteenth century by making the home a haven of privacy. The home became a moral entity, standing for discipline and a shield against the dangers of the outside world. A house was a private kingdom, stocked with books, artworks, family memorabilia, and souvenirs from excursions into the world outside. In 1850 Alexis de Tocqueville stressed the advantage of individualism, which he defined as "a feeling of comfort, which allows each citizen ... to keep company with his family ...
- Crimes of Passion: Dramas of Private Life in Nineteenth-Century France.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Stewart, Mary Lynn December 1, 1993 700+ words
In some of the essays one detects an inclination to place citizens more firmly into the ranks of a modernizing vanguard than the evidence seems to warrant. Thus one of Regina Jeske's findings for Gottingen is the strength of the continuities in the town's circumstances between 1789 and 1815:
- Monsters in the village? Incest in nineteenth century France.(WINNER OF THE...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Giuliani, Fabienne June 22, 2009 700+ words
...the French poor in the nineteenth century, Louis-Rene Villerme...crime, was revealed by a nineteenth century which contributed, paradoxically...linked to the history of private life and the nineteenth century housing structure. However...
- Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History McOuat, Gordon December 22, 2008 700+ words
...methodological thought in the nineteenth century. Science and Scientism...beginning of the nineteenth century to the fin de siecle...scientism. The nineteenth-century Romantics and the...into public and private life. In that sense...
- Kathleen Hart. Revolution and Women's Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century...
- Magazine article from: The Romanic Review Wilkinson, Marta January 1, 2007 700+ words
...Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France. Amsterdam...connecting "one's private life and one's public...ideology of the nineteenth century according to Rousseau...autobiographers faced in nineteenth-century France. Challenges...
- Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Fabian, Ann June 22, 2004 700+ words
...and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century. By John Corrigan...marketplace in the nineteenth-century United States...middle years of the nineteenth century experienced a crisis...shaped public and private life. Emotional exchange...
- Home and Its Dislocations in Nineteenth-Century France.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Fuchs, Rachel G. September 22, 1995 700+ words
...especially germane for the nineteenth century because of the magnitude of...cornerstone. Nord questions what private life and the home meant to bourgeois...essay within the context of nineteenth-century French history, Robert Morrissey...
- The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France.
- Magazine article from: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Accampo, Elinor A. June 22, 1997 700+ words
...debate about the relationship between citizenship and private life - gender roles, childrearing, and home decor - helped...original approach to understanding the birth of democracy in nineteenth-century France; it also makes a vital contribution to democratic...
- Manet and the Family Romance & Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth Century...
- Magazine article from: The Art Bulletin Brettell, Richard R. December 1, 2002 700+ words
...55.00 SUSAN SIDLAUSKAS Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth Century Painting Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000...that Manet's contributions to it must be centered in his private life. To marshal her arguments, Locke deals forcefully with...
- Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist, A Study of Science and Religion in...
- Magazine article from: The English Historical Review Hackmann, Willem November 1, 1994 700+ words
...Sandemanian and Scientist. A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century (London: Macmillan, 1991; pp. xi + 359. [pounds...how the many different facets of Faraday's public and private life, and his science, were closely linked to his Sandemanianism...
- English Prose of the Nineteenth Century.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Bridgman, Joan February 1, 1998 700+ words
...confers a unifying, frequently provocative, perspective on nineteenth century prose, surprising in its detail and diversity. Familiar...memoirs and autobiographies as well as a vigorous culture of private life-writing. There are many lively extracts taken from letters...
Source: HighBeam Research, Antiques.(Victorian era)