Victorian People and Ideas
10 best books like Victorian People and Ideas (Richard D. Altick): Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England, Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870, Daily Life In Victorian England, The Victorians, The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes, London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God, The Victorian Underworld, The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain, 1789-1837, Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
| Author | Judith Flanders |
| ISBN | 0393327639 |
Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such drudgery was routine for the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been.
Following...
| Author | Liza Picard |
| ISBN | 0753820900 |
Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books.
This period of mid-Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place...
Daily Life In Victorian England
| Author | Sally Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0313294674 |
Drawing on a wealth of sources, this volume brings England's Victorian era to life. Teachers, students, and interested readers can use this resource to examine Victorian life in a multitude of settings, from idyllic country estates to urban slums. Organized for easy reference, the volume provides...
| Author | A.N. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0393325431 |
The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were...
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
| Author | Henry Mayhew |
| ISBN | 0486440060 |
The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed "to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves — giving a literal...
| Author | Jerry White |
| ISBN | 0712600302 |
London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. It was a century of genius - of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday, Disraeli and Dickens. Jerry...
| Author | Donald Serrell Thomas |
| ISBN | 0814782388 |
Donald Thomas shows us, through the eyes of its inhabitants, the teeming underbelly of a world more often associated with gentility and high culture. Defined by night houses and cigar divans, populated by street people like the running-patterer with his news of murder, and entertainers like the Fire...
| Author | Ben Wilson |
| ISBN | 1594201161 |
Ben Wilson's "The Making of Victorian Values" is the history of an era rather like our own-a time when dissenters and rebels were hemmed in by conformists and hardheaded authoritarians, a time when a nation on the eve of global domination fretted about its future. It was, however, a period when those...
| Author | Alison Gernsheim |
| ISBN | 0486242056 |
Imagine trying to research late 20th century fashion with nothing but Vogue magazine as a reference. Naturally you would assume that everyone had a BMI of 14%, bizarre hair was the rage, visible hard nipples were just part of the fashion, and we were all running around in the snow like suicidal mantis...
| Author | T.J. Jackson Lears |
| ISBN | 0226469700 |
T. J. Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources — sermons, diaries, letters — as well as novels, poems, and essays to explore the origins of turn-of-the-century American antimodernism. He examines the retreat to the exotic, the pursuit of intense physical or spiritual experiences, and...
Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists
It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times, but most of all, as Daniel Pool reveals in this delightful new book, it was a time of surprisingly outrageous behavior. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters plunks the reader down in the middle of the London book world to expose the madcap...
Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
| Author | Nancy Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0195061608 |
Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic...
| Author | Elaine Showalter |
| ISBN | 0140115870 |
This book looks at parallels between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their representations in literature, art and film. This book ranges over the trial of Oscar Wilde, the public furore over prostitution and syphilis, moral outrage over the breakdown of the family, abortion rights and AIDS....
| Author | Matthew Sweet |
| ISBN | 0571206638 |
Suppose that everything we think we know about 'The Victorians' is wrong? That we have persistently misrepresented the culture of the Victorian era, perhaps to make ourselves feel more satisfyingly liberal and sophisticated? What if they were much more fun than we ever suspected? Matthew Sweet's...
| Author | George Dangerfield |
| ISBN | 0804729301 |
At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the ills that inflicted so many other countries. After a resounding electoral triumph in 1906, the Liberals formed the government of the most powerful nation...
Fascinating journey into the mostly failed marriages of famous people in the Victorian era and how the institution of marriage was and probably is much better for men than women. The best coupling in the book is between George Elliot and George Henry Lewes who were actually never married, but lived together...
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture
| Author | Bram Dijkstra |
| ISBN | 0195056523 |
At the turn of the century, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Throughout Europe and America, artists and intellectuals banded together to portray women as static and unindividuated beings who functioned...
| Author | Judith R. Walkowitz |
| ISBN | 0226871460 |
From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics,...
| Author | Stephen Inwood |
| ISBN | 0786706139 |
The Romans built it, the Angles and Saxons invaded it, the Vikings ravaged it, the Normans conquered it. From its beginnings as a foreign outpost on the banks of the Thames in the first century to, in the twenty-first, the teeming metropolitan sprawl of an extraordinarily cosmopolitan world capital,...
Queen Victoria's Children
Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who, despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by political controversy. This is not only...
| Author | Kathryn Hughes |
| ISBN | 0307278662 |
In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: Beeton’s Book of Household Management. In this delightful, superbly researched biography, award-winning historian Kathryn Hughes pulls back the lace curtains to reveal...
| Author | Stanley Weintraub |
| ISBN | 0743206096 |
Stanley Weintraub, biographer of Victoria and other major figures of her era, here unveils the largely hidden role of Albert, establishing him as one of the greatest men of his days. Drawing on previously unexplored sources, Weintraub delves into Albert's political, familial, financial, medical,...
| Author | Princess Michael of Kent |
| ISBN | 0743296370 |
Though of eminent birth and status in their own right, the women of Crowned in a Far Country all left the countries of their birth to marry heirs to great thrones. They all shared an inbred sense of duty and a genuine desire to see it performed. None fought against what she saw as her destiny but only sought...
