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Britain in 1859 : custom, history, modernity / Gail Marshall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Gail, 1965- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Eighteen fifty-nine, A.D.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "1859 produced major works by writers including Eliot, Darwin, and Dickens, representing some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of the Victorian period. Examining these alongside more ephemeral publications, Gail Marshall reveals a year which was both innovatory and conflicted about how to accommodate change"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- How it begins
- 'The custom of the country'
- Adam Bede and popular culture
- Voting reform and 'the English character'
- The theatre of war
- Lifting the veil on fraud and forgery
- November : originality, adaptation, and custom
- Conclusion. 1859 and 'the mother tongue of our imagination'.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-73903-4
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