Defining the Victorian Nation
Defining the Victorian Nation
Keith McClelland, Middlesex University, London
Jane Rendall, University of York
$57.00
USDDefining the Victorian Nation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most significant pieces of legislation in nineteenth-century Britain. Hall, McClelland and Rendall demonstrate that the Second Reform Act was marked by controversy about the extension of the vote, new concepts of masculinity and the masculine voter, the beginnings of the women's suffrage movement, and a parallel debate about the meanings and forms of national belonging. Fascinating illustrations illuminate the argument, and a detailed chronology, biographical notes and a selected bibliography offer further support to the student reader.
- Broad new introduction to a crucial period in British history
- Links histories of class, gender, race and the nation
- Excellent survey of recent research and gives fresh perspectives on Britain and the empire in the 1860s
Reviews & endorsements
"Hall (Univ. College, London), McClelland (Middlesex), and Rendall (York) break the mold of traditional political history...by analyzing the Reform Act in the light of new political history...this book is a pioneering study that broadens our view of Victorian politics. Graduate students and scholars will find the book invaluable." Choice
"This as a careful, detailed, and convincing book that stands up surprisingly well as a discrete entity" Albion
"...this is a text admirably suited to undergraduates and junior postgraduates...[it] provides extremely lucid accounts of a range of significant movements and episodes...The volume is relatively generously, if conventionally, illustrated with line drawings from the Illustrated London News and cartoons from Punch. H-Net
Product details
June 2000Paperback
9780521576536
320 pages
229 × 152 × 20 mm
0.46kg
15 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1. England's greatness, the working man
- 2. The citizenship of women and the Reform Act of 1867
- 3. The nation within and without
- Appendix: voting qualifications, reform proposals, and the effects of electoral reform 1832–1868
- Cast of characters
- Bibliography.
