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Inventing the Victorians (Paperback)
Short Description for Inventing the VictoriansThis text is an attempt to re-imagine the Victorians: to suggest new ways of looking at received ideas about their culture; to distinguish myth from reality; to generate the possibility of a new relationship between them and people of the 21st century.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 04 November 2002
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: British & Irish History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780571206636 ISBN 10: 0571206638
- Sales rank: 104,901
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Full description for Inventing the Victorians
A powerful and well argued reassessment of the Victorian Age, which reveals it to be a much more dynamic, radical and innovative era than is generally believed to be the case. "Matthew Sweet has opened a blast of fresh air into the hothouse of Victorian studies. His book is packed with weird and wonderful information" "The Spectator".

