Victorian Things - Hardcover

Briggs, Asa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071344519X ISBN 13: 9780713445190

Publisher: B T Batsford Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

Physical description; 448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill ; 24 cm. Subjects; Popular culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century. Material culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century.

About this title

Synopsis:

A survey of Victorian material culture completing a trilogy with the author's two earlier studies, "Victorian Cities" and "Victorian People". The author examines the objects and the way in which they express and reflect the preoccupations of Victorian society. Sections include information on museums and exhibitions, spectacles and camera, commemorative artifacts, home furnishings and decoration, matches, hats, coal, stamps, telephones and typewriters. The book is intended to raise important theoretical issues in such areas as cultural anthropology, the history of taste, semiology and semiotics.

About the Author:

Asa Briggs (Lord Briggs of Lewes) is one of today's best known historians. In his distinguished career he has been a Fellow and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chancellor of the Open University. He is president of the Social History Society, the Victorian Society and the Bronte Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: B T Batsford Ltd
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 071344519X
• ISBN 13: 9780713445190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448