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Record Nr.

UNISA996209294803316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Victorian culture / / edited by Francis O'Gorman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-139-80182-1

1-139-00281-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to culture

Disciplina

941.081

Soggetti

Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century

Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901

Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century

Great Britain Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Science and Culture / Bernard Lightman -- Technology / Nicholas Daly -- Economics and business / Timothy Alborn -- War 80 / Edward M. Spiers -- Music / Ruth A. Solie -- Theater / Katherine Newey -- Popular Culture / Dennis Denisoff -- Satirical print culture / John Strachan -- Journalism / Matthew Rubery -- Art / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Domestic arts / Nicola Humble -- Victorian literary theory / Anna Maria Jones -- The dead / Francis O'Gorman -- Remembering the Victorians / Samantha Matthews.

Sommario/riassunto

The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable



resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours.