Description
Book SynopsisAn important and stimulating volume surveying changing attitudes towards the Victorians in academia and popular culture in the twentieth century. Essential reading for students of Victorian Studies, Modern History and Cultural Studies. -- .
Table of ContentsPreface - Michael Wolff
Introduction - Miles Taylor
PART I: HISTORIES
1. Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians: The Rise and Fall of the Intellectual Aristocracy - William C. Lubenow
2. The Bleak Age: J.H. Clapham, the Hammonds and the standard of living in Victorian Britain - Stewart Weaver
3. Victorian Prime Ministers: Changing Patterns of Commemoration - Michael Bentley
4. Quiller-Couch, the Function of Victorian Literature and Modernism, 1890-1930 - Michelle Hawley
5. G. M. Young and the Early Victorian Revival - Miles Taylor
6. Culture or Society ?: Victorian Studies, 1951-64 - Martin Hewitt
PART II: REPRESENTATIONS
7. Industrialisation and Catastrophe: The Victorian Economy in British Film Documentary, 1930-50 - Timothy Boon
8. The Revival of Interest in Victorian Decorative Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum - Anthony Burton
9. ‘No Glorious Assurance’: The 1951 Festival of Britain looks at the Victorian past - Becky Conekin
10. The BBC and the Victorians - James Thompson
11. Theme Park Victoriana - John Gardiner
12. The Victorians at School: the Victorian era in the 20th century curriculum - Eric Evans
PART III: REVISIONS
13. Victorian Studies in the Digital Age - Patrick Leary
14. Victorian Studies in North America - Christopher Kent
15. The State of Victorian Studies in Australia and New Zealand - Miles Fairburn
16. Victorian Studies in the UK - Helen Rogers
Timeline of Victorian Studies
Index
