The visitors
Subtitle: culture shock in nineteenth-century Britain
By: Rupert Christiansen.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Géricault, Théodore, 1791-1824 -- Travel -- Great Britain.; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Travel -- Great Britain.; Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Travel -- Great Britain.; Visitors, Foreign -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Culture shock -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Description: "Using a vast range of sources and voices, Rupert Christiansen has produced a work of popular history, which illuminates the Victorian character from unexpected angles, and emphasizes the extraordinary richness and diversity of a society sometimes mistakenly perceived as insular, bigoted and inward-looking."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index