Key Concepts in Victorian Studies

Key Concepts in Victorian Studies is a comprehensive and accessible resource for students of the long nineteenth century, covering the reign of Queen Victoria and its antecedents. It includes illustrations derived from Victorian sources and offers a glossary, chronology, survey of important acts of Parliament, and chart to clarify Victorian terminology and explain key historical and political events.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Surveys not merely the reign of Queen Victoria but its antecedents in the long nineteenth century.

Includes illustrations derived wholly from Victorian sources.

Offers a crucial resource for overseas students and readers unfamiliar with the culture of the nineteenth century.

Key Concepts in Victorian Studies is a comprehensive and accessible resource for students of the long nineteenth century. The volume is divided into a number of cross-referenced sections which address the preoccupations and historical events of this crucial period in recent history and culture.

Central to the book's function as a durable reference work is an extensive A-Z glossary which clarifies Victorian terminology and explains key historical and political events. This is supplemented with a chronology listing significant domestic, imperial and international events from 1837 to 1901; a tabulation of British Prime Ministers in office during Queen Victoria's reign; a succinct but detailed survey of the most important acts of Parliament in the period; an explanation of pre-decimal British coinage; and a useful chart which converts imperial measurement into their metric equivalents. This book is an essential reference for scholars of Victorian literature and history from undergraduate to postgraduate level.

ISBN-13: 9781474499866