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The Rambler, its Reviewers and a ‘Philosophy of Knowledge’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

John Warren
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Searching for a phrase to describe the Spirit of the Age, the mid-Victorian writer might choose the ‘Age of Education’, or perhaps the ‘Age of Transition’; but Wilkie Collins preferred ‘The Age of the Periodical’. The high–status periodical, and education itself, could be seen as motive forces, determining, shaping, announcing and ushering in the ‘Age of Transition’. For the Liberal Catholics ofThe Rambler, the ‘Age of Transition’ could be an ‘Age of Opportunity’, witnessing the start of the reconversion of England; or it could be an ‘Age of Danger’, witnessing the slide of England into overt infidelity. Of the two motive forces, even the most complacent and self-satisfied review writer would admit the greater to be Education.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , May 1990 , pp. 127 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973

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Notes

Attribution of articles follows the invaluable The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824–1900 Houghton, W.E. (ed.) (University of Toronto Press: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972, Vol. 2.) Useful on the influential Rambler reviewer Richard Simpson is the editor’s introduction in Carroll, D (ed.) Richard Simpson as Critic (London, Henley and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977).

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