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Daily Life in Victorian England: The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series

Autor Sally Mitchell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 feb 2024
What was life really like in Victorian England during its transition from provincial society into modern urban power? Discover the effects of increased women's rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin's discoveries on everyday life. This volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Victorian daily living, including women's roles; Victorian Morality; leisure; health and medicine; and life in all settings, from workhouses to country estates. This edition features an extensive guide to contemporary primary source material and further research, including information about finding authoritative sources easily on the Web. Illustrations, interactive sidebars, a chronology and glossary further illuminate the details of Victorian culture. This volume is an ideal source for students and teachers alike.Discover the effects of increased women's rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin's discoveries on everyday life. Engaging narrative chapters explore all aspects of the Victorian experience, including: fashion, morality, courtship and mourning rituals, crime and punishment, public school requirements, legal status (marriage, divorce, inheritance, guardians, and bankruptcy), sports like croquet and foxhunting, and the importance of religion.
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ISBN-13: 9798765120705
Pagini: 356
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

SALLY MITCHELL is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. She has published extensively on Great Britain, the Victorian era, and women's issues, including Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (1988), which was named an ALA Outstanding Reference Work. Her most recent work, Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer, was published in 2004.

Cuprins

PrefaceChronologyIntroduction: The Victorians and Their World1. A Brief History of Victorian England2. The Foundations of Daily Life: Class, Tradition, and Money3. Working Life4. Technology, Science, and the Urban World5. Official Life: Government and the Law6. Private Life: House, Food, and Clothes7. Family and Social Rituals8. Education9. Health and Medicine10. Leisure and Pleasure: Holidays, Sports, and Recreation11. Faith and Works: Religion and Reform12. Victorian Morality13. England and EmpireAppendix: Victorian Research and ResourcesGlossaryFurther Reading

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The meat of the book remains excellent. Mitchell is comprehensive, providing a tremendous amount of information that will be useful to historians and readers of nineteenth-century literature alike.