Edwardian Turn Of Mind

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  • The
  • Edwardian
  • Turn
  • of
  • Mind
  • brilliantly
  • evokes
  • the
  • cultural
  • temper
  • of
  • an
  • age.
  • The
  • years
  • between
  • the
  • death
  • of
  • Queen
  • Victoria
  • and
  • the
  • outbreak
  • of
  • the
  • First
  • World
  • War
  • witnessed
  • a
  • turbulent
  • and
  • dramatic
  • struggle
  • between
  • the
  • old
  • and
  • the
  • new.
  • Samuel
  • Hynes
  • considers
  • the
  • principal
  • areas
  • of
  • conflict
  • -
  • politics,
  • science,
  • the
  • arts
  • and
  • the
  • relations
  • between
  • men
  • and
  • women
  • -
  • and
  • fills
  • them
  • with
  • a
  • wide-ranging
  • cast
  • of
  • characters:
  • Tories,
  • Liberals
  • and
  • Socialists,
  • artists
  • and
  • reformers,
  • psychoanalysts
  • and
  • psychic
  • researchers,
  • sexologists,
  • suffragettes
  • and
  • censors.
  • His
  • book
  • is
  • a
  • portrait
  • of
  • a
  • tumultuous
  • time
  • -
  • out
  • of
  • which
  • contemporary
  • England
  • was made.
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