Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
Victorian Theatrical Burlesques
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Schoch
December 06, 2017
First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatrical tradition, this critical edition - the first to focus on Victorian burlesques of Victorian ...
A Victorian Childhood
1st Edition
By Edward Higgs
November 30, 2017
First published in 1932. This title is a first-person account of growing up in Victorian England. The book examines many aspects of the British Empire, and the family life and education of the poet, writer and high society hostess Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff. A Victorian Childhood will be of...
An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society: Kentish London 1840-1880
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Crossick
November 30, 2017
First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it, and that stability is in part explained by the emergence of an artisan elite with a specific relationship to the society around it. This book examines that elite: its clubs...
Chartist Fiction: Volume One
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Haywood
November 30, 2017
First published in 1999. For the first time since their appearance in Chartist newspapers these two major radical narratives are reprinted in a single volume. The Political Pilgrim’s Progress combines Utopian politics with Bunyanesque satire to tell the story of the journey of Radical and his ...
Chartist Fiction: Volume Two
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Haywood
November 30, 2017
First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public’s attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman’s Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women’s oppression...
Class and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century England: 1815-1850
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Hollis
November 30, 2017
First published in 1973. This title aims to use contemporary documents to illustrate the attitudes and relationships of working men towards each other and against other groups in society in the years 1815 to 1850. The material comes under three headings; the analysis of class in terms of economic ...
Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By R. S. Neale
November 30, 2017
First published in 1972, this collection of essays by R. S. Neale focuses on authority, and the responses and challenges to it made by men and women throughout the nineteenth century. Employing a more sociologically-minded approach to history and specifically using a ‘five-class’ model, the book ...
Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City
1st Edition
By Hugh McLeod
November 30, 2017
First published in 1974, this book describes the religion of the East End, the West End, and the suburbs of London, where each section of society – as well as a variety of immigrant groups – has its own quarters, its own institutions, its distinctive codes of behaviour. While the main focus is on ...
Conflict and Compromise: Class Formation in English Society 1830-1914
1st Edition
By Dennis Smith
November 30, 2017
First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830 and 1914, when a rising urban industrial order was developing in complex interdependence with a declining rural agrarian order. The book follows the divergent paths of two cities - ...
Conquest of Mind: Phrenology and Victorian Social Thought
1st Edition
By David de Giustino
November 30, 2017
First published in 1975. This study examines one of the popular scientific philosophies of the nineteenth-century. The first part deals with the reception and diffusion of phrenology in Britain, its usefulness to various professions, and its challenge to traditional religion. The second part ...
Domestic Servants and Households in Rochdale: 1851-1871
1st Edition
By Edward Higgs
November 30, 2017
First published in 1986. At any one time in late nineteenth-century England and Wales over one million men and women were described as domestic servants in the occupational category after agricultural work. This title explores several aspects of domestic service in the area of Rochdale, and the ...
Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914
1st Edition
By A. James Hammerton
November 30, 2017
First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image ...