1st Edition
An Age of Equipoise? Reassessing mid-Victorian Britain
Edited By Martin Hewitt
Copyright 2000
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Age of Equipoise by W.L Burn was published in 1964 and became a central text in the canon of interpretations of the Victorian period. The book subsequently fell out of favour but recent claims to establish a new interpretative standard have, paradoxically, prompted reviewers to cast back to Burn's work as the orthodox standard against which such claims should be judged. The essays in this... Read more
Contents: Prologue: re-assessing The Age of Equipoise, Martin Hewitt; Equipoise and its discontents: voices of dissent during the international exhibitions, Peter H. Hoffenberg; Equipoise and the object: the South Kensington Museum, Tim Barringer; Spectacular failures: Thomas Hopley, Wilkie Collins and the reconstruction of Victorian masculinity, Sheila Sullivan; Democracy and the mid-Victorians, Roland Quinault; Equipoise and the myth of an open élite: new men of wealth and the purchase of land in the equipoise decades, 1850-69, David Brown; Domesticity: a legal discipline for men?, Martin J. Wiener; Helps and Ruskin in the age of equipoise, Stephen L. Keck; ’The hand of the Lord is upon the cattle’: religious reactions to the cattle plague, 1865-67, Matthew Cragoe; Sensational imbalance: the child acrobat and the mid-Victorians, Brenda Assael; Harbouring discontent: British imperialism through Brazilian eyes in the Christie affair, Ross G. Forman; Index.
Biography
Martin Hewitt
'... a probing introductory essay...' Albion
