17509 Non-Fiction " moments and out-loud laughs

" moments and out-loud laughs

Pen drawings open each chapter

Interviewees include Sir Stanley Wells

Late Victorian and early Edwardian high society

17509 Non-Fiction " moments and out-loud laughsWheeler gives a sweeping analysis of 19th century controversies over the place of Catholocism in English life. He examines the roots of these disputes, and especially focuses on how they were expressed in the literature of the era. Wheeler makes obscure and familiar easy to understand, including topics such as conflicts over historical views of the Reformation or English Schism, differences between the historical interpretations of Macaulay and