Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture

This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists poets dramatists artists philosophers social thinkers mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance and each entry is deliberately interpretative making this work both an essential reference tool and an engaging collection of essays.Figures covered include: Marx WagnerDarwin Malthus Balzac Jane Austen Nietzsche Babbage Edgar Allan Poe Ruskin Schleiermacher Herbert Spencer Harriet Martineau and Oscar Wilde.