Victoria's Madmen [electronic resource] : Revolution and Alienation /
Bloom, C.author.
Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Manypeeplia Upsidownia""; ""2 Radical Lunacy""; ""3 The Shock of Vril""; ""4 Massacre at Trafalgar""; ""5 Sherlock Holmes and the Fairies""; ""6 Knocking on Heaven's Door""; ""7 Tinker Bell on Mars""; ""8 Chatterton's Scorcher""; ""9 The Death Machine of Hartman the Anarchist""; ""10 Russia on the Clyde""; ""11 Smoked Salmon and Onions""; ""12 Imagined Worlds Made Real""; ""13 Playing Cricket in the Corridors""; ""14 The Collective Dreams of Bees""; ""15 The Way of the Ego""; ""16 Vegetarian Revolutionaries""; ""17 On the Frontier""
""18 The Lifting of the Fog""""19 The Crusade""; ""20 The Sound of Distant Drums""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.
Viktoria Grossbritannien, Königin, 1819-1901.
Great Britain—History.
Civilization—History.
World politics.
Social history.
Philosophy.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.
Political History.
Social History.
History of Philosophy.
Modern History.