Understanding the Victorians: Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Understanding the Victorians: Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN-10
1135762562
ISBN-13
9781135762568
Series
Understanding the Victorians
Category
History
Pages
308
Language
English
Published
2012-11-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Susie L. Steinbach

Description

"Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of the era, combining broad surveys with close analysis, and introduces students to the critical debates taking place among historians today. Focusing not just on England but on the whole of Great Britain and Ireland it emphasises class, gender, and racial and imperial positioning as constitutive of human relations. This book encompasses the whole of the Victorian period giving equal prominence to social and cultural topics alongside the politics and economics. Starting with the Queen Caroline Affair in 1820 and coming right up to the start of World War I in 1914, Susie L. Steinbach uses thematic chapters to discuss and evaluate, the economy, gender, religion, the history of science and ideas, material culture and sexuality. Steinbach also provides much-needed chapters on consumption, which links consumption with production, on law, which explains the legal culture and trials of criminal and scandalous cases and on space which draws to together the most current research in Victorian studies"--

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