The Victorian Studies Reader (Routledge Readers in History), Paperback, 1st Edition by Boyd, Kelly (Used)

Paperback: 1st Edition
Used: Acceptable
9780415355797
0415355796

Publication Date: 2007-06-05
Publisher: Routledge
Paperback : 439 pages
Edition: 1st Edition
Author: Boyd, Kelly
ISBN-10: 0415355796
ISBN-13: 9780415355797

Product Description Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture. The book draws on new trends in looking at the Victorian Age and includes sections on: periodization politics consumerism intellectual life sexuality empire. The Victorian Studies Reader is a rich resource, essential for all those studying this important period of history. Review "For Victorianists, this is a welcome collection of significant articles or book excerpts written after 1980 that reflect important trends in broader interdisciplinary Victorian studies. ... This is a book to educate (and update) both students and professors, who are likely to keep returning to it." -- CHOICE April 2008 Vol. 45 (P.T. Smith, Saint Joseph's University) About the Author Kelly Boyd teaches at the University of London. She edited the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (1999) and is the author of Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940 (2003). Rohan McWilliam is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University and author of Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England (1998) and The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation (2007).