The Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-century Britain
- ISBN-10
- 1856197859
- ISBN-13
- 9781856197854
- Series
- The Visitors
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Author
- Rupert Christiansen
Description
An account of some of the remarkable foreigners who came to 19th-century Britain bringing with them new ideas, values and skills. These people succeeded in cracking open the country's insularity, thereby making the Victorian Age far more liberal and dynamic than we commonly believe it to have been.
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