The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Rebels

The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Rebels

Brenda Ayres

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2025
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Cultura popular
ISBN:
9781032830629
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Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order, conventionality, and conformity, this study highlights myriad Victorians from all walks of life, across lines of class, race, and gender, who resisted social mores and sometimes the laws themselves, in a variety of ways and to varying degrees.

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