Victorians at Home and Abroad

by Atterbury, Paul; Cooper, Suzanne Fagence

• ISBN13: 9780810965737
• ISBN10: 0810965739
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

Summary

The Victorian era, all too often fossilized in history books and novels, was in fact a period of revolutionary social changes. The Victorians inhabited a world of bewildering contrasts where a Gothic vision mingled with exoticism, prim domesticity with the allure of world travel, religious piety with material wealth. Victorians at Home and Abroad is a lively visual chronicle of this remarkable era.

This succinct, affordable volume complements the larger exhibition book, The Victorian Vision, offering new insights into the lifestyles, pastimes, and creative pursuits of the first generation of Westerners to fully embrace the modern world. From science and industry to fine art and sports, all the touchstones of the Victorian world view, in both their smallest and grandest forms, come to life in the diverse imagery and informative texts of this attractive volume.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(2)
Royalty and the New Britain	8	(12)
Images of Queen Victoria	10	(2)
The Family	12	(2)
Children	14	(2)
Gothic and the New Britain	16	(4)
Visions of the New Britain	20	(36)
Great Exhibitions	22	(2)
The Seaside	24	(2)
Sport	26	(2)
The Celtic Revival	28	(2)
Theatre and Music-hall	30	(2)
Trains	32	(2)
Ships and Communications	34	(2)
Work	36	(2)
The Urban Scene	38	(4)
Domestic Technology	42	(2)
Advertising and Shopping	44	(2)
Colour	46	(2)
Women	48	(2)
Medicine	50	(2)
Death	52	(2)
Religion	54	(2)
Nature	56	(8)
Darwin and Evolution	58	(2)
Sentiment and Abuse	60	(2)
Landscape	62	(2)
Style and Decoration	64	(14)
Nature and Decoration	66	(2)
Historical Styles	68	(2)
Interiors	70	(2)
Jewellery	72	(2)
Arts and Crafts	74	(2)
New Art	76	(2)
Visions of the World	78	(14)
The Influence of the East	80	(2)
India	82	(2)
The Americas	84	(4)
The Pacific	88	(2)
Africa	90	(2)
Conclusion	92	(1)
Notes on the Text	92	(1)
Select Bibliography	93	(1)
Index	94