The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World
Author | : Melinda Corey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Melinda Corey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : Melinda Corey |
Publisher | : Henry Holt & Company |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 1996-01 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780805026221 |
Covers Victorian life from culture to politics to recreation
Author | : Sally Mitchell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1014 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415668514 |
First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.
Author | : Leah Price |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400842182 |
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author | : Robin Guild |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
This guide combines historical information with design ideas and advice on how to decorate, renovate and maintain a vintage home.
Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-09-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0547350619 |
This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame—Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, and that brother, Cesare, who inspired Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. Notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder, the dynasty’s dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to its occupation of the highest position in Renaissance society forms a gripping tale. From the author of The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici and other acclaimed works, The Borgias and Their Enemies is “a fascinating read” (Library Journal).
Author | : Jess Nevins |
Publisher | : Monkeybrain |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : |
This enormous volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of fantastic literature of the nineteenth century. From detective fiction to historical novels, from well-known authors like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to Russian newspaper serials and Chinese martial arts novels, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASTIC VICTORIANA is a truly exhaustive look at every aspect of fantastic literature in the days of Queen Victoria. Readers of science fiction and fantasy will be surprised to find here the roots of genres thought to be strictly contemporary, and students of literature will be amazed at the breadth and scope of writings produced in the Victoriana era. This is an invaluable reference, and truly one-of-a-kind.
Author | : Lee Jackson |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843312301 |
A wonderful A–Z of the fascinating world of Victorian London, full of amazing facts and curious humour.
Author | : Liza Picard |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780226527 |
From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, such as Peter Jones and Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan.
Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |