Titlebook: British Victorian Women‘s Periodicals; Beauty, Civilization Kathryn Ledbetter Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America In

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Reluctant Prophets: Moral Themes and Exhortations,guardians of the home, and moral missionaries who could uplift civilization. Catherine Hall explains that women “were being offered a field where they could be allowed to wield some power and influence within the moral sphere. They could play an important part in the reform of manners and morals” (8

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Conclusion,1851: “What is religion? What is truth? What is poetry? … ., and that is all we know of the cause of life. Poetry .—we feel it—how shall we define it?” (“What is Poetry?” 137). Like L. E. L., Cook believed that “[p]oetry is a great ennobler of life; it is purifying, refining, and elevating” (138). G

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Representing Feminine Power and Work,associate with the Victorian period was both contested and always under construction; because it was always in the making, it was always open to revision, dispute, and the emergence of opposite formulations” (3).

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,Einführung und Aufbau des Buches,ting “in that idea of superior beauty and excellence inherent in every nature—and it is employed to keep that idea alive; and the very belief in excellence is one cause of its existence” (“Ancient and Modern” 160). The imagination is the “beginning as well as the ornament of civilization. It civiliz