| Description |
1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Prologue: reassessing The Age of Equipoise; 1 Equipoise and its discontents: voices of dissent during the international exhibitions; 2 Equipoise and the object: the South Kensington Museum; 3 Spectacular failures: Thomas Hopley, Wilkie Collins, and the reconstruction of Victorian masculinity; 4 Democracy and the mid-Victorians; 5 Equipoise and the myth of an open élite: new men of wealth and the purchase of land in the equipoise decades, 1850-69 |
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6 Domesticity: a legal discipline for men?7 Helps and Ruskin in the age of equipoise; 8 'The hand of the Lord is upon the cattle': religious reactions to the cattle plague, 1865-67; 9 Sensational imbalance: the child acrobat and the mid-Victorians; 10 Harbouring discontent: British imperialism through Brazilian eyes in the Christie Affair; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Burn, William Laurence. Age of equipoise
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Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056625
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351959148 |
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135195914X |
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