The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture) [Paperback]

Francis O'Gorman (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0521715067 | ISBN-13: 978-0521715065

The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours.

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Book Description

A study of Victorian culture, aiming to provide literature students with in-depth contextual material, and students of history a stimulating overview of the nineteenth century's many innovations and achievements.

About the Author

Francis O'Gorman is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds.

Product Details

• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 15, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521715067
• ISBN-13: 978-0521715065
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)