The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation - Softcover

McWilliam, Rohan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852855398 ISBN 13: 9781852855390

Verlag: Hambledon Continuum, 2008

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Reseña del editor:

In 1865 a butcher in Australia claimed he was a long lost English aristocrat. How did a butcher become a baronet and the greatest popular hero of the Victorian age? This is the story of how the greatest trial in English legal history became the greatest people's movement of the nineteenth century.Rohan McWilliam employs this colourful and sensational story to explore the mentality of the Victorians. From the Australian Bush to the pubs and music halls of London's East End, the book reconstructs the flamboyant exploits of the Claimant and the stories he told about himself. McWilliam recreates the extraordinary personalities that the Claimant attracted and on this multi-layered cultural history, investigates the case by exploring radical politics, legal London, popular souvenirs, street music, comedy and melodrama.

Biografía del autor:

Rohan McWilliam is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University and author of Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England and the editor (with Kelly Boyd) of The Victorian Studies Reader..

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• Verlag: Hambledon Continuum
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1852855398
• ISBN 13: 9781852855390
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352