Progress and Pessimism

Religion, Politics, and History in Late Nineteenth Century Britain

Jeffrey Paul von Arx

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Publication Date: 10/10/1985

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The Sources of Victorian Pessimism
Leslie Stephen: Inventing the Progressive Tradition
W.E.H. Lecky and the History of Retrogression
John Morley and the Politics of Destruction
Companion in Adversity: James Anthony Froude
Conclusion: The Political Implications of the Historiography of Progress
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