The Resource Kilvert's World of Wonders : Growing up in Mid-Victorian England
Kilvert's World of Wonders : Growing up in Mid-Victorian England
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The item Kilvert's World of Wonders : Growing up in Mid-Victorian England represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringin
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (317 pages)
- Contents
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- Front cover; Kilvert's World of Wonders; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue -- 'Some Great Change Must Take Place'; Chapter 1. Piety, Progress and Print: Kilvert's Background; Chapter 2. Nature's Classroom; Chapter 3. Kilvert the Naturalist; Chapter 4. Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways; Chapter 5. Kilvert and Science and Technology; Chapter 6. Natural Law and the Mind; Chapter 7. Kilvert and Tyndall; Chapter 8. Miracles and Wonders; Chapter 9. Kilvert and Teaching; Chapter 10. Museums and Picture Galleries; Chapter 11. The Christian Geographer
- Chapter 12. 'Plunging into Ancient Chaos': Kilvert and EvolutionReferences; Select Bibliography; Back cover
- Isbn
- 9780718841775
- Label
- Kilvert's World of Wonders : Growing up in Mid-Victorian England
- Title
- Kilvert's World of Wonders
- Title remainder
- Growing up in Mid-Victorian England
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Church of England
- Church of England -- Clergy -- Biography
- Clergy
- Diaries
- England
- England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
- Families
- Families -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- HISTORY -- Modern | General
- History
- 1800-1899
- Kilvert, Robert Francis, 1840-1879 -- Diaries
- RELIGION -- Christianity | Anglican
- Social change
- Social change -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Social conditions
- Sources
- Kilvert, Robert Francis, 1840-1879
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringin
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Toman, John
- Dewey number
- 283.092
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BX5199.K49
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kilvert, Robert Francis
- Church of England
- Families
- Social change
- England
- Kilvert, Robert Francis
- Church of England
- RELIGION
- HISTORY
- Clergy
- Families
- Social change
- Social conditions
- England
- Label
- Kilvert's World of Wonders : Growing up in Mid-Victorian England
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Front cover; Kilvert's World of Wonders; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue -- 'Some Great Change Must Take Place'; Chapter 1. Piety, Progress and Print: Kilvert's Background; Chapter 2. Nature's Classroom; Chapter 3. Kilvert the Naturalist; Chapter 4. Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways; Chapter 5. Kilvert and Science and Technology; Chapter 6. Natural Law and the Mind; Chapter 7. Kilvert and Tyndall; Chapter 8. Miracles and Wonders; Chapter 9. Kilvert and Teaching; Chapter 10. Museums and Picture Galleries; Chapter 11. The Christian Geographer
- Chapter 12. 'Plunging into Ancient Chaos': Kilvert and EvolutionReferences; Select Bibliography; Back cover
- Control code
- 884015124
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (317 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780718841775
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 491831
- 22573/ctt1cg4gw7
- 51f4829c-beb4-40c9-89ec-8fee748d6a62
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884015124
- Label
- Kilvert's World of Wonders : Growing up in Mid-Victorian England
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Front cover; Kilvert's World of Wonders; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue -- 'Some Great Change Must Take Place'; Chapter 1. Piety, Progress and Print: Kilvert's Background; Chapter 2. Nature's Classroom; Chapter 3. Kilvert the Naturalist; Chapter 4. Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways; Chapter 5. Kilvert and Science and Technology; Chapter 6. Natural Law and the Mind; Chapter 7. Kilvert and Tyndall; Chapter 8. Miracles and Wonders; Chapter 9. Kilvert and Teaching; Chapter 10. Museums and Picture Galleries; Chapter 11. The Christian Geographer
- Chapter 12. 'Plunging into Ancient Chaos': Kilvert and EvolutionReferences; Select Bibliography; Back cover
- Control code
- 884015124
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (317 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780718841775
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 491831
- 22573/ctt1cg4gw7
- 51f4829c-beb4-40c9-89ec-8fee748d6a62
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884015124
Subject
- Biographies
- Church of England
- Church of England -- Clergy -- Biography
- Clergy
- Diaries
- England
- England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
- Families
- Families -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- HISTORY -- Modern | General
- History
- 1800-1899
- Kilvert, Robert Francis, 1840-1879 -- Diaries
- RELIGION -- Christianity | Anglican
- Social change
- Social change -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Social conditions
- Sources
- Kilvert, Robert Francis, 1840-1879
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