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1895 : Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain / Nicholas Freeman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) : 12 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748640560
  • 9780748650842
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9008
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Into the Past: A Brief Foreword -- Winter: 15 September 1894 – 28 February 1895 -- Spring: 1 March 1895 – 30 May 1895 -- Summer: 1 June 1895 – 31 August 1895 -- Autumn into Winter: 1 September 1895 – 31 December 1895 -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of this remarkable yearOscar Wilde's disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895. Now, Nicholas Freeman shows that the Wilde scandal was just one of many events to capture the public's imagination that year. Had Jack the Ripper returned? Did the Prime Minister have a dreadful secret? Were Aubrey Beardsley's drawings corrupting the nation? Were overpaid foreign players ruining English football? Could cricket save a nation from moral ruin?Freak weather, flu, a General Election, industrial unrest, New Women, fraud, accidents, anarchists, balloons and bicycles all stirred up interest and alarm. 1895 shows how this turbulent year is at the same time far removed from our own day and strangely familiar.Key FeaturesInterweaves literature, politics and historical biography with topics such as crime, the weather, sport, visual art and journalism to give an overarching view of everyday life in 1895Draws on strikingly diverse primary sources, from the Aberdeen Weekly Journal to the Women's Signal Budget, and from the Illustrated Police News to The Yellow BookEclectically illustrated with stills from plays and reproductions of newspaper front pages to bring Victorian culture to life
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Into the Past: A Brief Foreword -- Winter: 15 September 1894 – 28 February 1895 -- Spring: 1 March 1895 – 30 May 1895 -- Summer: 1 June 1895 – 31 August 1895 -- Autumn into Winter: 1 September 1895 – 31 December 1895 -- Bibliography -- Index

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Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of this remarkable yearOscar Wilde's disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895. Now, Nicholas Freeman shows that the Wilde scandal was just one of many events to capture the public's imagination that year. Had Jack the Ripper returned? Did the Prime Minister have a dreadful secret? Were Aubrey Beardsley's drawings corrupting the nation? Were overpaid foreign players ruining English football? Could cricket save a nation from moral ruin?Freak weather, flu, a General Election, industrial unrest, New Women, fraud, accidents, anarchists, balloons and bicycles all stirred up interest and alarm. 1895 shows how this turbulent year is at the same time far removed from our own day and strangely familiar.Key FeaturesInterweaves literature, politics and historical biography with topics such as crime, the weather, sport, visual art and journalism to give an overarching view of everyday life in 1895Draws on strikingly diverse primary sources, from the Aberdeen Weekly Journal to the Women's Signal Budget, and from the Illustrated Police News to The Yellow BookEclectically illustrated with stills from plays and reproductions of newspaper front pages to bring Victorian culture to life

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In English.

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