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Inventing the Victorians / Matthew Sweet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sweet, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- In this provocative exploration of the real Victorians, Sweet takes his subjects out of their musty parlors and gives them to readers in all their freshness and startling modernity. "Inventing the Victorians" is revisionist history at its most riveting and relevant. 16-page photo insert.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Faber, c2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312283261
- OCLC:
- 48477090
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