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Inventing the Victorians

By Matthew Sweet

Inventing the Victorians Politics & History

Inventing the Victorians

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Suppose that everything we think we know about ''The Victorians'' is wrong? That we have persistently misrepresented the culture of the Victorian era, perhaps to make ourselves feel more satisfyingly liberal and sophisticated? What if they were much more fun than we ever suspected? Matthew Sweet''s Inventing the Victorians has some revelatory - and entertaining - answers for us. As Sweet shows us in this brilliant study, many of the concepts that strike us as terrifically new - political spin-doctoring, extravagant publicity stunts, hardcore pornography, anxieties about the impact of popular culture upon children - are Victorian inventions. Most of the pleasures that we imagine to be our own, the Victorians enjoyed first: the theme park, the shopping mall, the movies, the amusement arcade, the crime novel and the sensational newspaper report. They were engaged in a well-nigh continuous search for bigger and better thrills. If Queen Victoria wasn''t amused, then she was in a very small minority . . . Matthew Sweet''s book is an attempt to re-imagine the Victorians; to suggest new ways of looking at received ideas about their culture; to distinguish myth from reality; to generate the possibility of a new relationship between the lives of nineteenth-century people and our own.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2002-11-04
Publication Date:
2002-11-04
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0571206638
ISBN13:
9780571206636
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
205 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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