The Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-century BritainChatto & Windus, 2000 - 271 pages An account of some of the remarkable foreigners who came to 19th-century Britain bringing with them new ideas, values and skills. These people succeeded in cracking open the country's insularity, thereby making the Victorian Age far more liberal and dynamic than we commonly believe it to have been. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Richard Wagner Composer | 42 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher | 82 |
Copyright | |
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The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain Rupert Christiansen Limited preview - 2002 |
The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-century Britain Rupert Christiansen No preview available - 2000 |
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