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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Francis O'Gorman
SeriesCambridge Companions to Culture
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:326
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 157
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
British and Irish History
World history - c 1750 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521886994
ClassificationsDewey:941.081
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 13 Halftones, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 21 January 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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