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Inventing the Victorians

Af: Matthew Sweet Engelsk Paperback

Inventing the Victorians

Af: Matthew Sweet Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780571206636
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0571206638
Kategori: Victoriatidens England
Udg. Dato: 4 nov 2002
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 128mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato: 4 nov 2002
Forfatter(e): Matthew Sweet
Forfatter(e) Matthew Sweet

Kategori Victoriatidens England

ISBN-13 9780571206636

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 128mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 4 nov 2002

Oplagsdato 4 nov 2002

Forlag Faber & Faber

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