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Coming Out Ahead: The Homosexual Moment in the Academy

Jerry Z. Muller

The journal Victorian Studies recently invited submissions for a special issue, entitled โ€œVictorian Sexualities.โ€ โ€œTopics,โ€ stated the call for papers, โ€œmay include (but certainly are not limited to) Victorian...

Character and Poverty

Jerry Z. Muller

Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30 Gertrude Himmelfarbโ€™s The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age,...

Minding Our Manners and Morals

Jerry Z. Muller

We begin with the observations of a social critic of cultural conservative leaningsโ€”let his name, for the moment, remain a mysteryโ€”as he casts his gaze upon the cultural influence...