Victoria's Year: English Literature and Culture, 1837-1838

by Richard L. Stein

Although 150 years have passed since Princess Victoria became Queen, the first twelve months of her reign remain relatively unexplored. In the first literary history to focus specifically on the year 1837-1838, Richard L. Stein examines a wide variety of cultural products--in visual art and architecture, statistics and maps, scientific writing and popular journalism, and literature itself--to reconstruct the thought and experience of England in "Victoria's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195049225
• ISBN13: 9780195049220
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"