Inventing the Victorians
by:
Matthew Sweet (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571206636 (0571206638)
Publish date: November 4th 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 263
Edition language: English
An interesting and amusing zip through the Victorian age, although to be honest Sweet was preaching to the converted in my case. There are some occasional thought-provoking passages, like the chapter that points out the similarities between Dr Palmer, a Victorian murderer who is prized by the inhabi...
Sweet sets out to prove that the Victorians were not so different from us. He has a point: they were the beginning of the current industrialized, urban-oriented society we live in today. To this day many of the phrases, assumptions, and phenomena (sex scandals as news, professional sports teams, a...
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