Exploring the Victorian fascination with the generation of their grandparents and great-grandparents, Brian Young illuminates Victorian intellectual, religious,

Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with disdain, the essays in The Vict

Drawing upon the satirical prints of the eighteenth century, the author explores what made Londoners laugh and offers insight into the origins of modern attitud

English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century is a set of lectures in literary history by Leslie Stephen. Stephen was an English writer, critic, hist

Lynda Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organised city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consump