Inventing the Victorians

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Sweet presents Night Waves and Freethinking on BBC Radio 3, and is the summer presenter of The Film Programme on Radio Four. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon , which he adapted as a film for BBC Four. His TV programmes include Silent Britain , A Brief History of Fun , The Age of Excess , Truly, Madly, Cheaply and The Rules of Film Noir . . Klappentext A powerful and well argued reassessment of the Victorian Age, which reveals it to be a much more dynamic, radical and innovative era than is generally believed to be the case. "Matthew Sweet has opened a blast of fresh air into the hothouse of Victorian studies. His book is packed with weird and wonderful information" "The Spectator". Inventing the Victorians is Matthew Sweet's sweeping and revelatory exploration of the Victorian era, and of the hedonistic Victorians who might seem much more familiar that we've been led to believe . . . Zusammenfassung As Sweet shows us in this brilliant study, many of the concepts that strike us as terrifically new - political spin-doctoring, extravagant publicity stunts, hardcore pornography, anxieties about the impact of popular culture upon children - are Victorian inventions.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Sweet, Sweet Matthew
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.11.2002
• EAN: 9780571206636
• ISBN: 978-0-571-20663-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; European History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex & sexuality, social aspects