M J D Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3097053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J D Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J D |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS M J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inventing the Victorian age: The Greville Diary and its Early Critics
Journal Article Inventing the Victorian age: the Greville Diary and its Early Critics Get access M.J.D. Roberts M.J.D. Roberts 1Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 September 2013, Pages 350–367, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2013.824694 Published: 01 September 2013
Gladstonian Liberalism and Environment Protection, 1865-76
Historians have, in recent times, produced a considerable literature attempting to interpret the motives of Victorian pioneers of concern for the preservation of 'natural' environments and to evaluate the cultural implications of the attitudes, which they aimed to promote. Yet no systematic study so far exists of the earliest and most politically effective Victorian movement for environmental protection-the campaign for the protection from commer…
The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion – By Dominic Erdozain
Evangelicalism and Scandal in Victorian England: The Case of the Pearsall Smiths
Contemporary, sociology‐assisted, enthusiasm for the study of ‘scandal’ has opened a rich field of possibilities for historians of Victorian England including historians of Victorian religious thought and practice. While exploration of this field has so far focused on the scandals of the culturally marginalized (notably Roman Catholics), the role of scandal in shaping mainstream Protestant evangelical culture in an age of ‘media‐generated celebri…
The Deathbed of Lord Palmerston: An Episode in Victorian Cultural History
Lord Palmerston died on 18 October 1865, still prime minister at the age of eighty. He was given a state funeral in Westminster Abbey on 27 October. By that time his stepson-in-law, Lord Shaftesbury, had begun spreading the word to a half-believing, half-unpersuaded public that Palmerston had died ‘the good [evangelical] death’, confessing in his last moments not only his sins but his belief in a life to come for all penitent believers in Christ'…
Between Fame and Eccentricity: John ‘Rob Roy’ Macgregor, Almost Eminent Victorian
This paper celebrates Jill Roe’s contribution to the study of biography by exploring some changing attitudes to the purpose of biography in nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the authorised biography of an – to modern eyes – eccentric ‘muscular Christian‘, John MacGregor, the paper traces a mutation in audience expectation from a view of biography as ‘exemplary’ in a moral or religious sense to a view of it as exemplary in a cultural sense …
The concept of luxury in British political economy: Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall
In the discourse of 18th-century British intellectuals the term 'luxury' held a well-recognized and much disputed place. Dispute arose chiefly around the problem of disentangling the economic, moral-theological and political strands of the term. The object of the present paper is to trace forward the history of debate over the concept along one develop ing line of specialization - that of 19th-century political economy. It will be seen how the te…
Feminism and the state in later Victorian England
Victorian feminists faced a dilemma in their dealings with the state. This dilemma intensified in the years following the 1867 Reform Act. Radical feminist leaders (Josephine Butler, Lydia Becker, Elizabeth Wolstenholme) eagerly adopted an ‘equality before the law’ stance in order to link women's credentials for citizenship with conventional principles of liberal individualism. Yet the same leaders were recurrently angered and frightened by the s…
Reshaping the Gift Relationship: The London Mendicity Society and the Suppression of Begging in England 1818–1869
As English urban society overhauled its systems of policing, poor relief and labour discipline in the early nineteenth century, one form of interaction between classes to become problematical was the act of giving to beggars. While economic ideology endorsed a more calculating approach to the relief of distress, social and religious ideology preached the necessity of expanded personal concern for the distressed. Among the commercial and professio…
Public and private in early nineteenth‐century London: The vagrant act of 1822 and its enforcement∗
Pressure-Group Politics and the Church of England: The Church Defence Institution 1859–1896
The latter half of the nineteenth century was a time of political mobilisation for religious organisations. This is a well-established fact in the case of English nonconformity – not quite such a well-established fact in the case of the Established Church. My concern in this paper is to trace the response of the Church of England to the extension of electoral politics, a response chiefly evidenced in the work of the Church Institution. This body,…
The Society for the Suppression of Vice and its Early Critics, 1802–1812
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Private Patronage and the Church of England, 1800–1900
It is well known that, during the nineteenth century in England, there was widespread criticism of the traditional professions. Their members, it was alleged, formed an excessively privileged group owing their position more to patronage than to personal merit or competence. It is equally well known that patronage was believed to be particularly rampant in the nineteenth-century Church of England. (The novels of Trollope have ensured this.) It has…
The Religious Thought of Charles de Remusat During the Second Empire
The Society for the Suppression of Vice and its Early Critics, 1802–1812
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Public and private in early nineteenth‐century London: The vagrant act of 1822 and its enforcement∗
Feminism and the state in later Victorian England
Victorian feminists faced a dilemma in their dealings with the state. This dilemma intensified in the years following the 1867 Reform Act. Radical feminist leaders (Josephine Butler, Lydia Becker, Elizabeth Wolstenholme) eagerly adopted an ‘equality before the law’ stance in order to link women's credentials for citizenship with conventional principles of liberal individualism. Yet the same leaders were recurrently angered and frightened by the s…
Reshaping the Gift Relationship: The London Mendicity Society and the Suppression of Begging in England 1818–1869
As English urban society overhauled its systems of policing, poor relief and labour discipline in the early nineteenth century, one form of interaction between classes to become problematical was the act of giving to beggars. While economic ideology endorsed a more calculating approach to the relief of distress, social and religious ideology preached the necessity of expanded personal concern for the distressed. Among the commercial and professio…
Private Patronage and the Church of England, 1800–1900
It is well known that, during the nineteenth century in England, there was widespread criticism of the traditional professions. Their members, it was alleged, formed an excessively privileged group owing their position more to patronage than to personal merit or competence. It is equally well known that patronage was believed to be particularly rampant in the nineteenth-century Church of England. (The novels of Trollope have ensured this.) It has…
Pressure-Group Politics and the Church of England: The Church Defence Institution 1859–1896
The latter half of the nineteenth century was a time of political mobilisation for religious organisations. This is a well-established fact in the case of English nonconformity – not quite such a well-established fact in the case of the Established Church. My concern in this paper is to trace the response of the Church of England to the extension of electoral politics, a response chiefly evidenced in the work of the Church Institution. This body,…
Gladstonian Liberalism and Environment Protection, 1865-76
Historians have, in recent times, produced a considerable literature attempting to interpret the motives of Victorian pioneers of concern for the preservation of 'natural' environments and to evaluate the cultural implications of the attitudes, which they aimed to promote. Yet no systematic study so far exists of the earliest and most politically effective Victorian movement for environmental protection-the campaign for the protection from commer…
The concept of luxury in British political economy: Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall
In the discourse of 18th-century British intellectuals the term 'luxury' held a well-recognized and much disputed place. Dispute arose chiefly around the problem of disentangling the economic, moral-theological and political strands of the term. The object of the present paper is to trace forward the history of debate over the concept along one develop ing line of specialization - that of 19th-century political economy. It will be seen how the te…
The Religious Thought of Charles de Remusat During the Second Empire
The Religious Thought of Charles de Remusat During the Second Empire
Private Patronage and the Church of England, 1800–1900
It is well known that, during the nineteenth century in England, there was widespread criticism of the traditional professions. Their members, it was alleged, formed an excessively privileged group owing their position more to patronage than to personal merit or competence. It is equally well known that patronage was believed to be particularly rampant in the nineteenth-century Church of England. (The novels of Trollope have ensured this.) It has…
The Society for the Suppression of Vice and its Early Critics, 1802–1812
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Pressure-Group Politics and the Church of England: The Church Defence Institution 1859–1896
The latter half of the nineteenth century was a time of political mobilisation for religious organisations. This is a well-established fact in the case of English nonconformity – not quite such a well-established fact in the case of the Established Church. My concern in this paper is to trace the response of the Church of England to the extension of electoral politics, a response chiefly evidenced in the work of the Church Institution. This body,…
Public and private in early nineteenth‐century London: The vagrant act of 1822 and its enforcement∗
Reshaping the Gift Relationship: The London Mendicity Society and the Suppression of Begging in England 1818–1869
As English urban society overhauled its systems of policing, poor relief and labour discipline in the early nineteenth century, one form of interaction between classes to become problematical was the act of giving to beggars. While economic ideology endorsed a more calculating approach to the relief of distress, social and religious ideology preached the necessity of expanded personal concern for the distressed. Among the commercial and professio…
Feminism and the state in later Victorian England
Victorian feminists faced a dilemma in their dealings with the state. This dilemma intensified in the years following the 1867 Reform Act. Radical feminist leaders (Josephine Butler, Lydia Becker, Elizabeth Wolstenholme) eagerly adopted an ‘equality before the law’ stance in order to link women's credentials for citizenship with conventional principles of liberal individualism. Yet the same leaders were recurrently angered and frightened by the s…
The concept of luxury in British political economy: Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall
In the discourse of 18th-century British intellectuals the term 'luxury' held a well-recognized and much disputed place. Dispute arose chiefly around the problem of disentangling the economic, moral-theological and political strands of the term. The object of the present paper is to trace forward the history of debate over the concept along one develop ing line of specialization - that of 19th-century political economy. It will be seen how the te…
Between Fame and Eccentricity: John ‘Rob Roy’ Macgregor, Almost Eminent Victorian
This paper celebrates Jill Roe’s contribution to the study of biography by exploring some changing attitudes to the purpose of biography in nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the authorised biography of an – to modern eyes – eccentric ‘muscular Christian‘, John MacGregor, the paper traces a mutation in audience expectation from a view of biography as ‘exemplary’ in a moral or religious sense to a view of it as exemplary in a cultural sense …
The Deathbed of Lord Palmerston: An Episode in Victorian Cultural History
Lord Palmerston died on 18 October 1865, still prime minister at the age of eighty. He was given a state funeral in Westminster Abbey on 27 October. By that time his stepson-in-law, Lord Shaftesbury, had begun spreading the word to a half-believing, half-unpersuaded public that Palmerston had died ‘the good [evangelical] death’, confessing in his last moments not only his sins but his belief in a life to come for all penitent believers in Christ'…
Evangelicalism and Scandal in Victorian England: The Case of the Pearsall Smiths
Contemporary, sociology‐assisted, enthusiasm for the study of ‘scandal’ has opened a rich field of possibilities for historians of Victorian England including historians of Victorian religious thought and practice. While exploration of this field has so far focused on the scandals of the culturally marginalized (notably Roman Catholics), the role of scandal in shaping mainstream Protestant evangelical culture in an age of ‘media‐generated celebri…
The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion – By Dominic Erdozain
Inventing the Victorian age: The Greville Diary and its Early Critics
Journal Article Inventing the Victorian age: the Greville Diary and its Early Critics Get access M.J.D. Roberts M.J.D. Roberts 1Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 September 2013, Pages 350–367, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2013.824694 Published: 01 September 2013
Gladstonian Liberalism and Environment Protection, 1865-76
Historians have, in recent times, produced a considerable literature attempting to interpret the motives of Victorian pioneers of concern for the preservation of 'natural' environments and to evaluate the cultural implications of the attitudes, which they aimed to promote. Yet no systematic study so far exists of the earliest and most politically effective Victorian movement for environmental protection-the campaign for the protection from commer…
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