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Great English Hero 1832

Legendary Magician

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In April 1832, while the nobles in the British House of Lords were debating the Parliamentary Reform Bill, an unknown man named George Wilson opened the door to the British literary world with a British version of "The Overcoat" and launched a ruthless criticism of the bureaucracy... A hundred years later, when British historians looked back on the literary and intellectual history of the nineteenth century, they wrote a passage with passion. "... He is the source of literature in the nineteenth century and the molder of the conscience of Victorian literature. Starting from "The Overcoat", he opened up critical realist literature and was regarded as a mentor by Dickens and Thackeray... ... Introducing a "long-term" overall perspective, rewriting Greek and British history with a holistic historical perspective, starting a historiographic revolution, and turning history from a hymn to heroes into an anatomy of social structure. ... He returned to the European social contract tradition, revised Bentham's utilitarianism with the "original position", redefined what justice was, profoundly influenced the two-party politics of Britain, embedded his ideas into the social framework of Victoria, and shaped the basic concepts of modern British people and even the entire modern society. ... It wasn't the Victorian Era, it was the George Wilson Era! "