Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Foulkes
November 30, 2017
Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue ...
Hewett Cottrell Watson: Victorian Plant Ecologist and Evolutionist
1st Edition
By Frank N. Egerton
November 30, 2017
First published in 2003. Hewett Cottrell Watson was a pioneer in a new science not yet defined in Victorian times – ecology – and was practically the first naturalist to conduct research on plant evolution, beginning in 1834. The correspondence between Watson and Darwin, analysed for the first time...
Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850-1910
1st Edition
By Logie Barrow
November 30, 2017
First published in 1986. Independent Spirits is about the intellectual world of the humbly-born in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, focussing on plebeian, or working- and lower middle-class spiritualists. This book is an important study which throws light on the idealism and ...
Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
By David Golby
November 30, 2017
First published in 2004, this book demonstrates that while Britain produced many fewer instrumental virtuosi than its foreign neighbours, there developed a more serious and widespread interest in the cultivation of music throughout the nineteenth century. Taking a predominantly historical approach,...
Keeping the Victorian House: A Collection of Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa D. Dickerson
November 30, 2017
First published in 1995. The essays in this volume demonstrate how Victorian women took up various positions along a continuum that ranged from the desire of Shelley’s creature for the power and acceptance it associated with the house to the rejection of Brontë’s heroine of the immobility and ...
Land and People in Nineteenth-Century Wales
1st Edition
By David W. Howell
November 30, 2017
First published in 1977. Essentially an economic history with strong emphasis on human factors, this title examines the reasons for the backwardness of much of the farming of Wales and discusses in detail how agricultural resources and organisation directly affected the nature of social ...
Leisure in the Industrial Revolution: c. 1780-c. 1880
1st Edition
By Hugh Cunningham
November 30, 2017
First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular ...
Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain
1st Edition
By Dennis Mills
November 30, 2017
First published in 1980, this book looks at the social structure of 18th and 19th century rural Britain. It is particularly concerned with the relationship of landlord and peasant in the rural village and examines the open-closed model of English rural social structure in great depth. In doing so, ...
Nonconformity in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By David M Thompson
November 30, 2017
First published in 1972, this volume shows the potency, and the limitations of Nonconformity in shaping the beginning of modern Britain. It draws upon a wide range of sources including the writings and discussions of Nonconformists themselves, their critics, and contemporary commentators. The ...
Paternalism in Early Victorian England
1st Edition
By David Roberts
November 30, 2017
First published in 1979. This book studies the social outlook which historians today call paternalism. It was an ideology which informed social attitudes at all levels of society and expressed itself in countless ways. In this work, David Roberts provides a comprehensive examination of the revival,...
Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth-Century England
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Storch
November 30, 2017
First published in 1982, this book is concerned with the tensions between continuity and change in customs, rituals, beliefs of artisans, factory workers and sections of the lower middle classes in the nineteenth century. It explores a range of factors which contributed to changes in custom, ...
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Dennis, David Skilton
November 30, 2017
First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman,...