Britain in 1859

Custom, History, Modernity
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-73901-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Gewicht: 250 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

1859 produced major works by writers including George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens. They represent some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of the Victorian period, and have come to embody a substantial part of what we mean by the term 'Victorian'. In Custom and History, Fighting and Fraud: Britain in 1859, these enduring texts are read alongside key events of the year, other significant publications from authors such as Collins, Smiles, Mill, Tennyson, and Beeton, as well as newspapers and periodicals. Gail Marshall reveals a year which was innovatory but also deeply conflicted about how to accommodate and acknowledge change within contemporary thought and practice. Custom, as the year's predominant and most readily available historical form, enabled the Victorians of 1859 to negotiate with the past as they faced the future. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marshall, Gail

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How it begins; 2. 'The custom of the country'; 3. Adam Bede and popular culture; 4. Voting reform and 'The English character'; 5. The theatre of war; 6. Lifting the veil on fraud and forgery; 7. November: originality, adaptation, and custom; 8. Conclusion: 1859 and 'the mother tongue of our imagination'; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Marshall, Gail
Gail Marshall is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture and an APVC for Research and Innovation at the University of Reading. She has previously worked at the Universities of Leeds, Leicester, and Oxford Brookes. She was recently Chair of University English. Custom and History, Fighting and Fraud is her third monograph with Cambridge University Press.