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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781536303321

Autore

Freeman Nicholas

Titolo

1895 [[electronic resource] ] : drama, disaster and disgrace in late Victorian Britain / / Nicholas Freeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5139-X

1-283-37007-7

9786613370075

0-7486-5084-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Disciplina

820.9008

Soggetti

Conduct of life - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century Periodicals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Into the Past: A Brief Foreword -- Winter: 15 September 1894 - 28 February 1895 -- Spring: 1 March 1895 - 30 May 1895 -- Summer: 1 June 1895 - 31 August 1895 -- Autumn into Winter: 1 September 1895 - 31 December 1895.

Sommario/riassunto

Kill the bugger!' So read one telegram to the Marquess of Queensberry before his legal battle with Oscar Wilde in the spring of 1895. Today's readers often see the Wilde case as dramatising the intolerance and cruelty of late-Victorian life, but what was its contemporary significance? What was it like to live in Britain in 1895? Which stories, personalities and events really captured the headlines?