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Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domesticity', `conscience' and `improvement' to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. Covering such figures as J.M. Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lord Reith of the BBC, these interdisciplinary studies scrutinize the children of the Victorians at a time when their private assumptions and public positions were under increasing strain in a rapidly changing world. After the Victorians<

Social reformers --- Social movements --- Civic leaders --- Intellectuals --- Duty. --- Conscience. --- Ethics --- Guilt --- Superego --- Deontology --- Obligation --- Responsibility --- Supererogation --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Community leaders --- Leaders, Civic --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Reformers --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Intellectual life --- clapham --- sect --- lytton --- strachey --- stephens --- college --- howards --- end --- bishop --- lahore