Introduction

The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field.

Topics Covered

Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world.

Understanding the Victorian Identity

The book explores what Victorian has come to mean and how an idea of the Victorian might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of culture itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship.

Intended Audience

An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours.