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.
Prose of the Victorian Period
Prose of the Victorian Period - 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 Prose of the Victorian Period write by William Earl Buckler. This book was released on 1958. Prose of the Victorian Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An established series of classic American, British, and continental literature distinguished by its textual purity and authoritative editorial material." -Publisher.
Inside the Victorian Home
Inside the Victorian Home - 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 Inside the Victorian Home write by Judith Flanders. This book was released on 2004. Inside the Victorian Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master bedroom to separate gender domains in the drawing room and parlor.
Time Travelers
Time Travelers - 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 Time Travelers write by Adelene Buckland. This book was released on 2020-05-11. Time Travelers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of their preoccupations with the past were unprecedented and of lasting importance. The Victorians paved the way for our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain’s most important national museums and galleries. To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to fresh debates, while seemingly well-known histories were thrown into confusion by novel tools and methods of scrutiny. If in the eighteenth century the study of the past had been the province of a handful of elites, new technologies and economic development in the nineteenth century meant that the past, in all its brilliant detail, was for the first time the property of the many, not the few. Time Travelers is a book about the myriad ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions.
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.
