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The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction [#739]
The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction [#739]
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英国の歴史の中で、近代都市社会の多くの課題に最初に取り組んだのがヴィクトリア朝の時代です。それ故に、交通網や下水道、道路、家屋などの大部分で、この時代のものが未だに使用され続けています。芸術、科学、文学などの文化的遺産にも賞賛すべきものが多々ありますが、一方でこの時代の人々の行動・判断によって、後の世界が悪しき方向へ誘われていった側面があるのも事実です。ヴィクトリア朝という時代は一体どのようなものだったのか、その特徴、価値観や世界観、そしてその遺産についての歴史的概観を提供します。
  
  • Gives a a broad outline of Victorian political, economic, and diplomatic history
  • Discusses the concept of 'Victorianism', and explores the associated conglomeration of values, conventional behaviours and practices, understandings, and beliefs associated with this age
  • Considers the extent to which the Victorians have remained a powerful presence in post-Victorian Britain, and also the impact of the Victorian age in a global context
  • Introduces some of the most influential figures in key areas of public life (such as politics, literature, philanthropy) to characterise and explain the particular preoccupations and moods of the various phases of the Victorian period
    
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport networks, sewage systems, streets, and houses. Victorian cultural legacies, especially in art, science, and literature, are still celebrated. The first to have to grapple with many of the challenges of modern urban society, we continue to look to the Victorians for inspiration and solace. And we are increasingly aware of the ways their global actions shaped, often for ill, the world around us. Much mythologized, inexhaustibly controversial, the Victorians are an inescapable reference point for understanding the modern histories not just of Britain and its empire, but of the world.
   
In The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction Martin Hewitt offers a guide through the thickets of judgement and debate which have grown around the period and its people, to offer a historical overview of the Victorians and their legacies. He seeks to answer five crucial questions. Why have the Victorians continued occupy such a prominent place in the cultures of not just the anglophone world? How far does it make sense to think of a 64-year period arbitrarily given an identity by the longevity of the Queen as an identifiable historical period in a general sense? How justified are the value-laden versions of the Victorians which argue for the existence of a particular world view called 'Victorianism'? Beyond ideology, what was Victorian Britain actually like – and in particular, what was distinctive about it? Who were the Victorians – not just the eminent few, but the population as a whole? And finally, how far and with what results did the Victorians and their culture spread across the globe?
   
In answering these questions, Hewitt cautions against some long-held orthodoxies, throws a light on some less well-known aspects of the period, and urges the importance of understanding the Victorians on their own terms if we are to effectively engage with their legacies.
目次: 

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: The Victorians in retrospect
2: The Victorian as period
3: Victorianism
4: Victorian configurations
5: Eminent Victorians
6: The Victorian world
Further Reading
References

著者について: 

Martin Hewitt, Professor of History, Anglia Ruskin University

Martin Hewitt is a historian of Britain in the long-nineteenth century. During an academic career which involved work at several universities, most recently Anglia Ruskin University, where he was Dean of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, he has published widely on urban history, working-class radicalism, life-writing, the press and the platform. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture and the first secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and from 2020-23 was Belcher Visiting Fellow in Victorian Studies at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

商品情報

ISBN : 9780198736813

著者: 
Martin Hewitt
ページ
160 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2023年08月
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The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction [#739]

The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction [#739]

The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction [#739]