Victorians

Name: Victorians
Price: 5.18 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780393325430

ISBN-10: 0393325431

ISBN-13: 9780393325430

Edition: N/A

Authors: A. N. Wilson

List price: $39.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $34.11

Marketplace

5 new & used from $5.18

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Book details

List price: $39.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 738
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.30" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Preface



Early Victorian



The Little Old Woman Britannia



Victoria's Inheritance



The Charter



Typhoon Coming On



The Age of Peel



Famine in Ireland



The Victorians in Italy



Doubt



Mesmerism



John Stuart Mill's Boiled Egg



The Failed Revolution



The Eighteen-Fifties



The Great Exhibition



Marx - Ruskin - Pre-Raphaelites



The Crimean War



India 1857-9



Clinging to Life



The Eighteen-Sixties



The Beloved - Uncle Tom - and Governor Eyre



The World of School



Charles Kingsley and The Water-Babies



Goblin Market and the Cause



Wonderland



Some Deaths



The IV The Eighteen-Seventies



Gladstone's First Premiership



The Side of the Angels



The End of Lord Beaconsfield



The Devils - Wagner - Dostoyevsky - Gilbert and Sullivan



Country Parishes - Kilvert - Barnes - Hardy



The Eighteen-Eighties



A Crazy Decade



The Plight of the Poor



The Rise of Parnell



The Fourth Estate - Gordon of Khartoum - The Maiden Tribute of Babylon



Politics of the Late 1880s



Into Africa



Kipling's India



Jubilee - and the Munshi



The Dock Strike



The Scarlet Thread of Murder



The Fall of Parnell



The Eighteen-Nineties



The Victorian Way of Death



Appearance and Reality



Utopia: The Decline of the Aristocracy



The Boer War



Vale


Notes


Bibliography


Index