The Victorians

David Gange

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781780748290
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia del mundo

The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented transformation, yet it is often understood only through the stereotypes of crowded factories, child labour and emotional repression. In this entertaining and scholarly introduction, Dr David Gange explores the political, social and economic realities that defined life for Victorian people.Weaving together the perspectives of historians and literary scholars with movements in art, science and ethics, Gange paints a colourful, interdisciplinary portrait of everyday life in nineteenth century Britain. The Victorians: A Beginner's Guide features such famous figures as Dickens and Disraeli, while offering a thought-provoking examination of how our perceptions of this pivotal period of history have changed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• 1: Introducing the Victorians
• 2: Sounds and sights of the city: experiencing the Victorian metropolis
• 3: Knowing Victorian Britain: the geography of four nations
• 4: Knowing the world: the inventions of empire
• 5: How cruel time can be: Victorian past, present, and future
• 6: A community of believers? Religion in Victorian Britain
• 7: Reforming class: politics and the social order
• 8: Performing gender: men, women, and the family
• 9: Back to the land? Nostalgia and modernity in late Victorian Britain
• 10: Epilogue: history devastated in their wake
• Further reading
• Index