Author: I. F. W. Beckett
Publisher: Hambledon & London
Keywords: war, victorians
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-08-23
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 185285510X
ISBN-13: 9781852855109

The men of the Victorian army ruled a large part of the world. As the visible power behind the greatest empire there had ever been, they were involved in wars and policing wherever British interests demanded it, whether in Canada, the Crimea, Afghanistan or the Sudan. Very small by continental standards, the Victorian army combined a strong sense of tradition with growing professionalism. The variety of tasks it had to undertake gave its officers and men an extraordinary range of challenges and experiences: putting down the Indian Mutiny, fighting in the jungles of West Africa, facing a Zulu i

Author: A. N. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: victorians
Number of Pages: 760
Published: 2004-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393325431
ISBN-13: 9780393325430

A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own. The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, most important investors in the developing world. In this sense, England’s position has strong resemblances to America’s in the late twentieth century. As o

Author: Karen Chase
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: old, victorians
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2009-08-10
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0199564361
ISBN-13: 9780199564361

Karen Chase examines old age as it was constructed in Victorian social and literary cultures. Beginning with the vexed relation between elderly people whose numbers and needs taxed the state which sought to identify, classify, and provide for them, she analyzes illuminating moments in narrative form, social policy, or cultural attitudes. The book considers the centrality of institutions and of the generational divide; it traces the power and powerlessness of age through a range of characters and individuals as distinct from one another as Dickens’s inebriated nurse, Sairey Gamp, to the s

Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: victorians, eminent
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $11.90
ISBN-10: 1406831204
ISBN-13: 9781406831207

The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, s

Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: victorians, eminent
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2004-06-25
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1417929820
ISBN-13: 9781417929825

1918. The famous biographer of the Victorians, Strachey was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group. Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Author: James Kincaid
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: victorians, annoying
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-12-15
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0415907292
ISBN-13: 9780415907293

What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians, sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self to the Victorians, and they will never read (or be read) quite the same.

Author: John Gardiner
Publisher: Hambledon & London
Keywords: retrospect, victorians
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1852855606
ISBN-13: 9781852855604

Who were the Victorians? Were they self-confident imperialists secure in the virtues of the home, and ruled by the values of authority, duty, religion and respectability? Or were they self-doubting and hypocritical prudes whose family life was authoritarian and loveless? Ever since Lytton Strachey mocked Florence Nightingale and General Gordon in "Eminent Victorians", the reputation of the Victorians, and of what they stood for, has been the subject of vigorous debate. John Gardiner provides a fascinating guide to the changing reputation of the Victorians during the twentieth century. Differen