The Victorian Studies Reader - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415355788 ISBN 13: 9780415355780

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

Riassunto

Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture. The book draws on new trends in looking at the Victorian Age and includes sections on:

• periodization
• politics
• consumerism
• intellectual life
• sexuality
• empire.

The Victorian Studies Reader is a rich resource, essential for all those studying this important period of history.

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Recensione:

"For Victorianists, this is a welcome collection of significant articles or book excerpts written after 1980 that reflect important trends in broader interdisciplinary Victorian studies. ... This is a book to educate (and update) both students and professors, who are likely to keep returning to it." -- CHOICE April 2008 Vol. 45 (P.T. Smith, Saint Joseph's University)

L'autore:

Kelly Boyd teaches at the University of London. She edited the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (1999) and is the author of Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940 (2003).

Rohan McWilliam is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University and author of Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England (1998) and The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation (2007).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415355788
• ISBN 13: 9780415355780
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 456
• Redattore: Boyd Kelly, McWilliam Rohan