El. knyga: Victorian Studies Reader [Taylor & Francis e-book]

Preface		xi
Acknowledgements		xiii
Introduction: Rethinking the Victorians		1	(48)
Kelly Boyd
Rohan McWilliam
PART 1 Periodisation		49	(18)
Should We Abandon the Idea of the Victorian Period?		51	(16)
Richard Price
PART 2 Economy		67	(30)
Can Culture Explain Economic Decline?		69	(14)
Martin Wiener
Gentlemanly Capitalism		83	(14)
P.J. Cain
A.G. Hopkins
PART 3 Consumerism and material culture		97	(30)
Women and the Department Store		99	(11)
Erika Rappaport
Clothing the Middle-Class Male		110	(17)
Christopher Breward
PART 4 Society and class		127	(22)
The Fall of Class		129	(7)
Patrick Joyce
Representing the Manchester Irish		136	(13)
Mary Poovey
PART 5 Space		149	(16)
Public Spaces in the Victorian City		151	(14)
Simon Gunn
PART 6 Politics high and low		165	(42)
Liberalism and Government		167	(10)
Jonathan Parry
Radicalism, Language and Class		177	(14)
Gareth Stedman Jones
Gender and Radicalism		191	(16)
Anna Clark
PART 7 Morality		207	(14)
In Defence of the Victorians		209	(12)
Gertrude Himmelfarb
PART 8 Intellectual history		221	(12)
Character and the Victorian Mind		223	(10)
Stefan Collini
PART 9 Religion		233	(20)
Religion, Doctrine and Public Policy		235	(9)
Boyd Hilton
How Religious Was Victorian Britain?		244	(9)
Callum Brown
PART 10 Science		253	(52)
Evolution Before Darwin		255	(13)
Adrian Desmond
Domesticating Evolution		268	(14)
James A. Secord
Darwin's Imagination		282	(6)
Gillian Beer
Science and Popular Culture		288	(17)
Alison Winter
PART 11 Gender and the family		305	(34)
Separate Spheres		307	(11)
Leonore Davidoff
Catherine Hall
Men and Domesticity		318	(6)
John Tosh
Working-Class Family Strategies		324	(15)
Ellen Ross
PART 12 Sexuality		339	(56)
Working-Class Sexuality		341	(6)
Michael Mason
The Meaning of the Prostitute		347	(13)
Lynda Nead
Jack the Ripper and the Doctors		360	(10)
Judith Walkowitz
Homosexuality and Late Victorian Anxiety		370	(10)
Elaine Showalter
Sexuality and the Pub		380	(15)
Peter Bailey
PART 13 Monarchy		395	(16)
Restoring the Popularity of the Monarchy		397	(14)
John Plunkett
PART 14 Race, Empire and national identity		411	(20)
Bringing the Empire Back In		413	(18)
Catherine Hall
Index		431

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).