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Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of an era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the critical debates on the nineteenth century taking place among historians today.
List of contents
List of figures Timeline Preface to the third edition Acknowledgments Introduction: 'Playing on the Piano-forte' 1. A 'green and pleasant land' of cities and slums: Space 2. 'Discussions on the subject of reform': Politics 3. 'Fog in channel-Continent isolated': Britain and Europe 4. Ruling the world: Imperialism 5. Wealth, poverty, growth, and slumps: The economy 6. 'Bristling with shops': Consumption 7. 'Born into the lower-upper-middle': Class 8. 'Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside': Leisure 9. 'A common cause with all the females in this kingdom': Gender 10. A 'dignified part': Monarchy 11. 'The court was crowded all day': The law and the police 12. 'Good, murderous melodramas': Arts, entertainment, and print culture 13. Marriage, free love, and 'unnatural crimes': Sexuality 14. 'For all its gathered tears': Emotion 15. 'Begin and end with the Church whatever you do between-whiles': Religion 16. Vestiges and origins: Science, technology, and medicine
About the author
Susie L. Steinbach is a Professor of History at Hamline University who has written extensively on nineteenth-century Britain, with particular emphasis on gender and the law. She is the author of
Understanding the Victorians, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2016),
Women in England 1760-1914: A Social History (2004), and the editor of
Millicent Garret Fawcett by Her Contemporaries (2008).
Summary
Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of an era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the critical debates on the nineteenth century taking place among historians today.
