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The Victorian Studies Reader Kelly Boyd (University of London, UK)

The Victorian Studies Reader By Kelly Boyd (University of London, UK)

The Victorian Studies Reader by Kelly Boyd (University of London, UK)


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Summary

This book gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture and draws on new trends in looking at the Victorian Age and includes sections on, periodization, politics and consumerism.

The Victorian Studies Reader Summary

The Victorian Studies Reader by Kelly Boyd (University of London, UK)

Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture. The book draws on new trends in looking at the Victorian Age and includes sections on:

  • periodization
  • politics
  • consumerism
  • intellectual life
  • sexuality
  • empire.

The Victorian Studies Reader is a rich resource, essential for all those studying this important period of history.

The Victorian Studies Reader Reviews

For Victorianists, this is a welcome collection of significant articles or book excerpts written after 1980 that reflect important trends in broader interdisciplinary Victorian studies. ... This is a book to educate (and update) both students and professors, who are likely to keep returning to it. -- CHOICE April 2008 Vol. 45 (P.T. Smith, Saint Joseph's University)

About Kelly Boyd (University of London, UK)

Kelly Boyd teaches at the University of London. She edited the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (1999) and is the author of Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940 (2003).

Rohan McWilliam is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University and author of Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England (1998) and The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation (2007).

Table of Contents

1. Rethinking the Victorians 2. Periodization 3. Economy 4. Consumerism and Material Culture 5. Society and Class 6. Space 7. Politics High and Low 8. Morality 9. Intellectual History 10. Religion 11. Science 12. Gender 13. Sexuality 14. Monarchy 15. Race, Empire and National Identity

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GOR005849482
9780415355797
0415355796
The Victorian Studies Reader by Kelly Boyd (University of London, UK)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20070423
464
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