Rethinking Victorian culture

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Label

Rethinking Victorian culture

Statement of responsibility

edited by Juliet John and Alice Jenkins ; foreword by John Sutherland

Contributor

• Jenkins, Alice, 1970-
• John, Juliet, 1967-

Subject

• Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"The Victorian period witnessed a fundamental reassessment of the very concept of culture. Cultural theorists from Matthew Arnold in Culture and Anarchy to Raymond Williams in Culture and Society have acknowledged the importance of the Victorian period in the history of culture. More recently, however, the rise of cultural studies has signalled a particular intensity of interest in twentieth-century cultural history and theory. Rethinking Victorian Culture is predicated on the view that the histories of Victorian and modern culture form a continuous narrative." "Original essays by eminent and emerging Victorianists re-evaluate Victorian culture using a variety of different critical and theoretical approaches. As importantly, the collection offers a reassessment, explicit and implicit, of Victorian studies and its methodologies."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography