How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life - Softcover

Goodman, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163149113X ISBN 13: 9781631491139

Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp, 2015

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Delightful.

A triumph.--Judith Flanders

Exuberant, absorbing.--A. N. Wilson

If the past is a foreign country because they do things differently there, we're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman.... Goodman's fascination with the objects of the past doesn't lead her to fetishize or romanticize them. She is admirably matter-of-fact.... Revelatory.--Alexandra Kimball

Goodman's research is impeccable, and she attacks the topic with gusto, taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension... Although the book lends itself to being read in segments, I read it straight through like a novel, panting to know what would happen next.--Patricia Hagen

[A] witty account of life during the monarch's reign... [Goodman's] interest in historical accuracy leads her to experiment with corsets and home cures. Research for the book led her 'down harrowing avenues of hunger, disease, overwork, and abuse.' Among the most upsetting are accounts of small children working harder than most adults do now, sometimes in dangerous and frightening environments, and on empty stomachs. Often a very funny read, the book takes seriously the suffering of these kids and their families.--Kate Tuttle

Goodman skillfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose... Compulsively readable.--Erin Entrada Kelly

[E]ntertaining... Goodman mixes historical context with technical know-how; in addition to explaining why women wore corsets she tries wearing--and even making--one herself... [T]he book's accumulation of detail on matters as diverse as purchasing a ticket for the new underground railway, administering an opium-based tonic to a baby, and signaling interest in a homosexual affair makes you feel as if you could pass as a native.

Goodman's impeccably researched account will raise readers' eyebrows with her adventures "living history"... [Her] charming guide richly illustrates what daily life was like for common people undergoing the massive social changes of the time and succeeds in presenting "a more intimate, personal and physical sort of history."

Reseña del editor:

A British historian vividly describes the intimate and charming details of everyday life—from leisure activities and fashion to education and even contraception during the Victorian period, including doing calisthenics, putting on a corset and giving a little opium to the children before bedtime. 15,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 163149113X
• ISBN 13: 9781631491139
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 458