An Age Of Equipoise Reassessing Mid Victorian Britain

Author : Martin Hewitt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351959155

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An Age of Equipoise? Reassessing Mid-Victorian Britain by Martin Hewitt Pdf

The Age of Equipoise by W.L Burn was published in 1964 and became a central text in the canon of interpretations of the Victorian period. The book subsequently fell out of favour but recent claims to establish a new interpretative standard have, paradoxically, prompted reviewers to cast back to Burn's work as the orthodox standard against which such claims should be judged. The essays in this volume by British and American contributors all engage, to varying degrees, with the notion of 'equipoise' and how it can help to illuminate the mid-Victorian period in ways which alternative formulations cannot. Some of the chapters develop arguments embedded in Burn's own book; others take up issues largely absent in The Age of Equipoise, such as the position of children, Britain's interaction with the wider world, and the threats the period experienced to its concept of masculine identity. Together the essays demonstrate the intricacy and turbulence of the forces of cohesion in Victorian society, along with the success of that culture in achieving a working, if shifting, modus vivendi. Moreover, they substantiate the argument that, whatever the limitations of Burn's work, 'equipoise' deserves rehabilitation as a powerful conceptual framework for making sense of mid-Victorian Britain. About the Editor: Martin Hewitt is Director of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies and editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture. With Robert Poole he has recently produced an edition of The Diaries of Samuel Bamford, 1858-61 (Sutton, 2000).

Author : Martin Hewitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135694593

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The Victorian World by Martin Hewitt Pdf

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history and art history, The Victorian World offers a sweeping survey of the world in the nineteenth century. This volume offers a fresh evaluation of Britain and its global presence in the years from the 1830s to the 1900s. It brings together scholars from history, literary studies, art history, historical geography, historical sociology, criminology, economics and the history of law, to explore more than 40 themes central to an understanding of the nature of Victorian society and culture, both in Britain and in the rest of the world. Organised around six core themes – the world order, economy and society, politics, knowledge and belief, and culture – The Victorian World offers thematic essays that consider the interplay of domestic and global dynamics in the formation of Victorian orthodoxies. A further section on ‘Varieties of Victorianism’ offers considerations of the production and reproduction of external versions of Victorian culture, in India, Africa, the United States, the settler colonies and Latin America. These thematic essays are supplemented by a substantial introductory essay, which offers a challenging alternative to traditional interpretations of the chronology and periodisation of the Victorian years. Lavishly illustrated, vivid and accessible, this volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the nineteenth century.

Author : W. L. Burn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1138639176

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The Age of Equipoise by W. L. Burn Pdf

First published in 1964. The purpose of this title is to examine and describe certain aspects of English life and thought between 1852 and 1867. By exploring the lives of certain men and women the reader will be presented with an illustration of the actions and opinions of the time. The book draws a contrast between mid-Victorian England and the England of the "Romantic" England; with the object of showing how certain potentially disruptive forces had abated and what remained after their abatement. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Author : William Laurence Burn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1069399536

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The Age of Equipoise: a Study of the Mid-Victorian Generation by William Laurence Burn Pdf

Author : Janice Carlisle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521868365

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Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain by Janice Carlisle Pdf

An innovative exploration of Victorian art and politics that examines how paintings and newspaper illustrations visualized franchise reform.

Author : Lara Kriegel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822390534

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Grand Designs by Lara Kriegel Pdf

With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum, predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which stands today as home to the world’s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegel’s identification of the significant links between markets and museums, and between economics and aesthetics, amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including museum guidebooks, design manuals, illustrated newspapers, pattern books, and government reports, Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design, the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright, the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace, the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums, and the working men of London who critiqued the city’s art and design collections—all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and, in the process, to refashion London’s public culture.

Author : Lisa Rodensky
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191652516

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The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel by Lisa Rodensky Pdf

Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked (the novel and classics, the novel and the OED, the novel, and allusion). Manifesting the increasing interdisciplinarity of Victorian studies, its essays situate the novel within a complex network of relations (among, for instance, readers, editors, reviewers, and the novelists themselves; or among different cultural pressures - the religious, the commercial, the legal). The handbook's essays also build on recent bibliographic work of remarkable scope and detail, responding to the growing attention to print culture. With a detailed introduction and 36 newly commissioned chapters by leading and emerging scholars — beginning with Peter Garside's examination of the early nineteenth-century novel and ending with two essays proposing the 'last Victorian novel' — the handbook attends to the major themes in Victorian scholarship while at the same time creating new possibilities for further research. Balancing breadth and depth, the clearly-written, nonjargon -laden essays provide readers with overviews as well as original scholarship, an approach which will serve advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars. As the Victorians get further away from us, our versions of their culture and its novel inevitably change; this Handbook offers fresh explorations of the novel that teach us about this genre, its culture, and, by extension, our own.

Author : F. Parsons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230244665

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Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain by F. Parsons Pdf

This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).

Author : Paul A. Brand,Paul Brand,Joshua Getzler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107018976

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Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law by Paul A. Brand,Paul Brand,Joshua Getzler Pdf

Leading historical research analysing the history of judges and judging, allowing comparisons between British, American, Commonwealth and Civil Law jurisdictions.

Author : Peter Gurney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441120175

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The Making of Consumer Culture in Modern Britain by Peter Gurney Pdf

It is commonly accepted that the consumer is now centre stage in modern Britain, rather than the worker or producer. Consumer choice is widely regarded as the major source of self-definition and identity rather than productive activity. Politicians vie with each other to fashion their appeal to 'citizen-consumers'. When and how did these profound changes occur? Which historical alternatives were pushed to the margins in the process? In what ways did the everyday consumer practices and forms of consumer organising adopted by both middle and working-class men and women shape the outcomes? This study of the making of consumer culture in Britain since 1800 explores these questions, introduces students to major debates and cuts a distinctive path through this vibrant field. It suggests that the consumer culture that emerged during this period was shaped as much by political relationships as it was by economic and social factors.

Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199296880

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The Culture of History by Billie Melman Pdf

"In this researched book, Billie Melman takes us on a voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. Exploring the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations, and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history, she reveals how during the nineteenth century the most popular, longest-enduring, and most highly commercialized images of the past represented it as dangerous, disorderly, and violent."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Panikos Panayi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317864233

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An Immigration History of Britain by Panikos Panayi Pdf

Immigration, ethnicity, multiculturalism and racism have become part of daily discourse in Britain in recent decades – yet, far from being new, these phenomena have characterised British life since the 19th century. While the numbers of immigrants increased after the Second World War, groups such as the Irish, Germans and East European Jews have been arriving, settling and impacting on British society from the Victorian period onwards. In this comprehensive and fascinating account, Panikos Panayi examines immigration as an ongoing process in which ethnic communities evolve as individuals choose whether to retain their ethnic identities and customs or to integrate and assimilate into wider British norms. Consequently, he tackles the contradictions in the history of immigration over the past two centuries: migration versus government control; migrant poverty versus social mobility; ethnic identity versus increasing Anglicisation; and, above all, racism versus multiculturalism. Providing an important historical context to contemporary debates, and taking into account the complexity and variety of individual experiences over time, this book demonstrates that no simple approach or theory can summarise the migrant experience in Britain.

Author : Ben Griffin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107015074

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The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain by Ben Griffin Pdf

This groundbreaking history challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights.

Author : Sascha Auerbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491556

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Armed with Swords & Scales by Sascha Auerbach Pdf

Explores how local courtrooms have been a common feature of everyday life and culture since the eighteenth century.

Author : Edward J. Gillin
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781398102903

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Entente Imperial by Edward J. Gillin Pdf

The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. This book shows how this is fundamentally wrong by exploring British collaboration with France between 1848 and 1914. Gillen redefines our understanding of Britain’s role in the world in the age of empire.