The Edwardian Turn of Mind (1968)

by Samuel Hynes

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"The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging cast of characters- Tories, Liberals and Socialists, artists and reformers, psychoanalysts and psychic researchers, sexologists, suffragettes and censors. His book is a portrait of a tumultuous time - out of which contemporary England was made."… (more)

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2543 The Edwardian Turn of Mind, by Samuel Hynes (read 17 Oct 1993) This is a 1968 book on the social history of Britain. It deals with social events from 1901 to 1914. Some of it did not interest me--the disregard shown for some of the defenders of standard morality did not influence me to accept Hynes' view thereon--but in general the book is worth reading. I am attracted to much in the period, and think there is good reading to be done which was written then or is about people prominent then. The book spends, though, a lot of time talking about the Webbs and H. G. Wells, neither of which topics greatly interested me. (

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For Laurence Lafore historian, novelist, pilot, and good friend.

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"The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging cast of characters- Tories, Liberals and Socialists, artists and reformers, psychoanalysts and psychic researchers, sexologists, suffragettes and censors. His book is a portrait of a tumultuous time - out of which contemporary England was made."

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