Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City: The Visiting Mode in Manchester, 1832-1914

by Martin Hewitt

Book Overview

This study explores the 'ecology of knowledge' of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in which Victorians comprehended the nature of their urban society, through an exploration of the history of Victorian Manchester, and two specific case studies on the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell and the campaigns for educational extension which emerged out of the city. It argues that crucial to the Victorians' approaches was the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367787938
• ISBN13: 9780367787936
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"