Britain in 1859: Custom, History, Modernity

Gail Marshall

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Britain in 1859

Custom, History, Modernity

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The year 1859 produced major works by writers including George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens. They represent some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of the Victorian period, and have come to embody a substantial part of what we mean by the term 'Victorian'. In Britain in 1859: Custom, History, Modernity, these enduring texts are read alongside key events of the year; other significant publications from authors such as Collins, Smiles, Mill, Tennyson, and Beeton; and newspapers and periodicals. Gail Marshall reveals a year which was innovatory but also deeply conflicted about how to accommodate and acknowledge change within contemporary thought and practice. Custom, as the year's predominant and most readily available historical form, enabled the Victorians of 1859 to negotiate with the past as they faced the future.

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Britain in 1859
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Britain in 1859 - Title page
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Custom, History, Modernity
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 - How It Begins
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Chapter 2 - ‘The custom of the country’
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Chapter 3 - Adam Bede and Popular Culture
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Chapter 4 - Voting Reform and ‘The English Character’
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Chapter 5 - The Theatre of War
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Chapter 6 - Lifting the Veil on Fraud and Forgery
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Chapter 7 - November
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Originality, Adaptation, and Custom
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Chapter 8 - Conclusion
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1859 and ‘the mother tongue of our imagination’
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Notes
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