Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic
1st Edition
By Tim Travers
November 30, 2017
Samuel Smiles is best known for his book Self Help (1859), which many have assumed to be an encouragement to social and financial success. However, Smiles actually argued against the single-minded pursuit of success, and in favour of the protean formation of character as the ultimate goal of life....
Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Ninteenth-Century Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Crossick, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
November 30, 2017
First published in 1984. Shopkeepers and master artisans had a striking presence in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, not only in the development of industrial and urban economies, but also the fabric of social life and the politics of protest. The experience of 1848, the differing pace of ...
Signs for the Times: Symbolic Realism in the Mid-Victorian World
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Crossick
November 30, 2017
First published in 1984. Signs for the Times explores imaginative and creative relationships between three major areas of mid-Victorian arts: literature, painting and architecture. Through the detailed critical analysis of particular novels, prose writings, paintings and buildings, Chris Brooks ...
South Wales and the Rising of 1839: Class Struggle as Armed Struggle
1st Edition
By Ivor Wilks
November 30, 2017
First published in 1984, this book provides the first full study of the carefully planned rising of south Wales miners and ironworkers in 1839 and of its collapse at the confrontation with soldiers of the 45th regiment of Newport. It examines not only the rising itself, but the factors that made it...
Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael H. Shirley, Todd E. A. Larson
November 30, 2017
First published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more students to British history than any other American historian. This collection of essays by some of his former students ...
The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England: The United Kingdom Alliance 1872-1895
1st Edition
By A.E. Dingle
November 30, 2017
The evils of drink were a constant preoccupation in late Victorian England. The United Kingdom Alliance, founded in 1853, fought a long and vigorous but ultimately unsuccessful campaign for prohibition. In doing so it eventually developed into one of the most powerful reformist pressure groups ...
The Irish in the Victorian City
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Swift, Sheridan Gilley
November 30, 2017
First published in 1985, this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities, including Bristol, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stockport. With contributions from foremost scholars in the field, it provides a thorough critical study of Irish immigration, in its ...
The Literature of Struggle: An Anthology of Chartist Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Haywood
November 30, 2017
First published in 1995. Chartism inspired a prodigious literary output, based on its own newspapers and journals. However, while some Chartist political writings have been reprinted, the aesthetic texts of the movement have largely been neglected. This selection of short stories and extracts from ...
The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870-1914
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Crossick
November 30, 2017
First published in 1977. This book records the emergence of a lower middle class in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Victorian society had always contained a marginal middle class of shopkeepers and small businessmen, but in the closing decades of the nineteenth century the growth of ...
The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Crossick, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
November 30, 2017
First published in 1995. Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt provide a major overview of the social, economic, cultural and political development of the petite bourgeoisie in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. Through comparative analysis the authors examine issues ...
The Radical Soldier's Tale: John Pearman, 1819-1908
1st Edition
By Carolyn Steedman
November 30, 2017
First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier’s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his ‘Memoirs’, written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he presents his life as a soldier during the Sikh Wars, his life as a policeman, and the ideologies which divided people from...
The Victorian Church in Decline: Archbishop Tait and the Church of England 1868-1882
1st Edition
By Peter Marsh
November 30, 2017
First published in 1969, this book studies the years of decline in the Victorian Church between 1868 and 1882. It centres on the Archbishop Tait, who was paradoxically the most powerful Archbishop of Canterbury since the seventeenth century, and follows the policies he pursued, the high church ...