Victorian People and Ideas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian People and Ideas write by Richard Daniel Altick. This book was released on 1974. Victorian People and Ideas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life in the Victorian period, focusing on the social, religious, scientific, and artistic movements that characterized the age.
Victorian People and Ideas
Victorian People and Ideas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian People and Ideas write by Richard Daniel Altick. This book was released on 1973. Victorian People and Ideas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitude, but it is now higher than ever. In this important new study, Richard D. Altick, moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Carlyle and Dickens, Tennyson and Arnold were daily struggling to solve. And the issues were many. Altick brings to the discussion of these complicated questions the lively and sensitive intelligence that his many readers have come to expect. He includes contemporary illustrations and a full reference index.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain write by Leah Price. This book was released on 2012-04-09. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
The Presence of the Present
The Presence of the Present - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Presence of the Present write by Richard Daniel Altick. This book was released on 1991. The Presence of the Present available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England
A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England write by Michelle Higgs. This book was released on 2014-02-12. A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An “utterly brilliant” and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history (Books Monthly, UK). Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and everything in between. A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England is “a brilliant guided tour of Charles Dickens’s and other eminent Victorian Englishmen’s England, with insights into where and where not to go, what type of people you’re likely to meet, and what sights and sounds to watch out for . . . Utterly brilliant!” (Books Monthly, UK). Like going back in time, Higgs’s book shows armchair travelers how to find the best seat on an omnibus, fasten a corset, deal with unwanted insects and vermin, get in and out of a vehicle while wearing a crinoline, and avoid catching an infectious disease. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book blends accurate historical details with compelling stories to bring alive the fascinating details of Victorian daily life. It is a must-read for seasoned social history fans, costume drama lovers, history students, and anyone with an interest in the nineteenth century.
