Victorian and Edwardian Fashion

Victorian and Edwardian Fashion
Author: Alison Gernsheim
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 048631913X

Bonnets, capes, caps, shawls, bodices, and crinolines as people actually wore them from 1840 to 1914. More than 200 photos depict aristocrats and members of the middle class as well as celebrities.

Victorian Fashion in America

Victorian Fashion in America
Author: Kristina Harris
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780486418148

After the three page introduction, the work is mainly photographs with short captions.

Victorians at Home and Away

Victorians at Home and Away
Author: Janet Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317271734

First published in 1978, this book explores everyday Victorian likes and dislikes, manners, fashions, ideals and illusions. It discusses their changing attitudes to women, children, the poor, the common soldier and their country. It explains the rise and fall of home entertainment, the growth of soccer, racing and cricket to national sports, the rise of public schools and new professions as well as the appeal of missionary work. It is argued that all this happened not because the Victorians were fools, hypocrites or villains, but because they sensibly adapted themselves to peculiar and novel circumstances. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Domestic and Heroic in Tennyson's Poetry

Domestic and Heroic in Tennyson's Poetry
Author: Donald S. Hair
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1981-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1487589611

Tennyson shared the assumptions of his age concerning the value of family life, and treated the domestic as the source of the heroic in both action and character. This book provides a critical examination of these major Victorian themes as they appear in Tennyson's poetry and demonstrates how the poet's assumptions illuminate his use of elegy, idyl, and epyllion and his treatment of romance. Professor Hair analyses In Memoriam, the English Idylls, The Princess, and Idyls of the King; he examines Tennyson's view of the family as the model of social order, a civilizing influence on the nation, and a place where the greater man, or hero, is nurtured; and he reveals how much of Tennyson's poetry explores the link between domestic and heroic. He also discusses the patterns into which these pervasive domestic concerns fall, with emphasis on the most significant: separation and reunions. The myth of Demeter and Persephone, the Biblical story of Ruth, and the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale are all versions of Tennyson's treatment of this pattern. The English Idylls and other idyls and epyllia are explored as varying combinations of romance, satire, tragedy, comedy, and irony, with a detailed analysis of The Princess, the most complex of these medleys. Idylls of the King, wherein the fate of Camelot rests on the marriage of Arthur and Guinevere, is treated as the fullest exploration of the link between domestic and heroic.