In the Olden Time: Victorians and the British Past - Hardcover

Sanders, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300190425 ISBN 13: 9780300190427

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre, 2013

Synopsis

In this richly textured and wide-ranging survey of Victorian attitudes to the past, Andrew Sanders builds on Roy Strong’s groundbreaking book And when did you last see your father?: The Victorian Painter and British History (1978). Sanders explores the essentially literary nature of Victorian history writing, and he reveals the degree to which painters were indebted to written records both fictional and factual. Starting with a stimulating comparison of Queens Elizabeth I and Victoria, In the Olden Time examines works by poets and painters, essayists and dramatists, architects and musicians, including Jane Austen, John Donne, William Shakespeare, and John Soane. Together with a study of religious history as seen through the eyes of architect and critic Augustus Pugin and journalist William Cobbett, this book offers an original view of Victorian responses to British history, presenting a fresh investigation of unexpected Victorian attitudes and the establishment of particular 20th-century prejudices and bias.

About this title

Book Description:

This groundbreaking cultural survey of Victorian responses to British history sheds new light on the intersection of architecture, art, literature, and religion in Victorian England.

About the Author:

Andrew Sanders is emeritus professor, department of English, Durham University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300190425
• ISBN 13: 9780300190427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344