The Victorian studies reader /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. |
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| Description: | xv, 439 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge readers in history |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6378541 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Rethinking the Victorians
- Part 1. Periodisation
- 1. Should We Abandon the Idea of the Victorian Period?
- Part 2. Economy
- 2. Can Culture Explain Economic Decline?
- 3. Gentlemanly Capitalism
- Part 3. Consumerism and material culture
- 4. Women and the Department Store
- 5. Clothing the Middle-Class Male
- Part 4. Society and class
- 6. The Fall of Class
- 7. Representing the Manchester Irish
- Part 5. Space
- 8. Public Spaces in the Victorian City
- Part 6. Politics high and low
- 9. Liberalism and Government
- 10. Radicalism, Language and Class
- 11. Gender and Radicalism
- Part 7. Morality
- 12. In Defence of the Victorians
- Part 8. Intellectual history
- 13. Character and the Victorian Mind
- Part 9. Religion
- 14. Religion, Doctrine and Public Policy
- 15. How Religious Was Victorian Britain?
- Part 10. Science
- 16. Evolution Before Darwin
- 17. Domesticating Evolution
- 18. Darwin's Imagination
- 19. Science and Popular Culture
- Part 11. Gender and the family
- 20. Separate Spheres
- 21. Men and Domesticity
- 22. Working-Class Family Strategies
- Part 12. Sexuality
- 23. Working-Class Sexuality
- 24. The Meaning of the Prostitute
- 25. Jack the Ripper and the Doctors
- 26. Homosexuality and Late Victorian Anxiety
- 27. Sexuality and the Pub
- Part 13. Monarchy
- 28. Restoring the Popularity of the Monarchy
- Part 14. Race, Empire and national identity
- 29. Bringing the Empire Back In
- Index