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Title:

The Victorian studies reader / edited by Kelly Boyd and Rohan McWilliam.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xv, 439 p. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
Readers--History.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Wereldbeeld.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.

Other Authors:

Boyd, Kelly.
McWilliam, Rohan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Representing the Manchester Irish / Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rethinking the Victorians / Mary Poovey -- 7. Rohan McWilliam -- pt. 1. Periodisation -- 1. Should we abandon the idea of the Victorian period? / Richard Price -- pt. 2. Economy -- 2. Can culture explain economic decline? / Martin Wiener -- 3. Gentlemanly capitalism / P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins -- pt. 3. Consumerism and material culture -- 4. Women and the department store / Erika Rappaport -- 5. Clothing the middle-class male / Christopher Breward -- pt. 4. Society and class -- 6. The fall of class / Patrick Joyce -- 7. Representing the Manchester Irish / Mary Poovey --
19. Science and popular culture / 8. Public spaces in the Victorian city / Alison Winter -- pt. 6. Politics high and low -- 9. Liberalism and government / Jonathan Parry -- 10. Radicalism, language and class / Gareth Stedman Jones -- 11. Gender and radicalism / Anna Clark -- pt. 7. Morality -- 12. In defence of the Victorians / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- pt. 8. Intellectual history -- 13. Character and the Victorian mind / Stefan Collini -- pt. 9. Religion -- 14. Religion, doctrine and public policy / Boyd Hilton -- 15. How religious was Victorian Britain? / Callum Brown -- pt. 10. Science -- 16. Evolution before Darwin / Adrian Desmond -- 17. Domesticating evolution / James A. Secord -- 18. Darwin's imagination / Gillian Beer -- 19. Science and popular culture / Alison Winter --
29. Index. 20. Separate spheres / Catherine Hall -- and Catherine Hall -- 21. Men and domesticity / John Tosh -- 22. Working-class family strategies / Ellen Ross -- pt. 12. Sexuality -- 23. Working-class sexuality / Michael Mason -- 24. The meaning of the prostitute / Lynda Nead -- 25. Jack the Ripper and the doctors / Judith Walkowitz -- 26. Homosexuality and late Victorian anxiety / Elaine Showalter -- 27. Sexuality and the pub / Peter Bailey -- pt. 13. Monarchy -- 28. Restoring the popularity of the monarchy / John Plunkett -- pt. 14. Race, empire and national identity -- 29. Bringing the empire back in / Catherine Hall -- Index.

Series:

Routledge readers in history

ISBN:

0415355796 (pbk.)
9780415355797 (pbk.)
0415355788 (hardback)
9780415355780 (hardback)

LCCN:

2006036108

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)