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Informationen zum Autor Miles Taylor is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Southampton Michael Wolff is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Klappentext An important and stimulating volume surveying changing attitudes towards the Victorians in academia and popular culture in the twentieth century. Essential reading for students of Victorian Studies, Modern History and Cultural Studies. Zusammenfassung An important and stimulating volume surveying changing attitudes towards the Victorians in academia and popular culture in the twentieth century. Essential reading for students of Victorian Studies, Modern History and Cultural Studies. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface - Michael WolffIntroduction - Miles TaylorPART I: HISTORIES1. Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians: The Rise and Fall of the Intellectual Aristocracy - William C. Lubenow2. The Bleak Age: J.H. Clapham, the Hammonds and the standard of living in Victorian Britain - Stewart Weaver3. Victorian Prime Ministers: Changing Patterns of Commemoration - Michael Bentley4. Quiller-Couch, the Function of Victorian Literature and Modernism, 1890-1930 - Michelle Hawley5. G. M. Young and the Early Victorian Revival - Miles Taylor6. Culture or Society ?: Victorian Studies, 1951-64 - Martin HewittPART II: REPRESENTATIONS7. Industrialisation and Catastrophe: The Victorian Economy in British Film Documentary, 1930-50 - Timothy Boon 8. The Revival of Interest in Victorian Decorative Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum - Anthony Burton9. 'No Glorious Assurance': The 1951 Festival of Britain looks at the Victorian past - Becky Conekin10. The BBC and the Victorians - James Thompson11. Theme Park Victoriana - John Gardiner12. The Victorians at School: the Victorian era in the 20th century curriculum - Eric EvansPART III: REVISIONS13. Victorian Studies in the Digital Age - Patrick Leary14. Victorian Studies in North America - Christopher Kent15. The State of Victorian Studies in Australia and New Zealand - Miles Fairburn16. Victorian Studies in the UK - Helen RogersTimeline of Victorian StudiesIndex...
