Description
| Product ID: | 9780007548385 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Victorians Undone |
| Subtitle: | Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum |
| Authors: | Author: Kathryn Hughes |
| Page Count: | 432 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, Social and cultural history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & cultural history |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ‘Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while’ Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians. ‘Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while’ Daily MailA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians.Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left?Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors?Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert?What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger?How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins?Kathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious observance – its language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives. |
| Imprint Name: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-01-25 |
