This work describes the stories of some of the remarkable foreigners who came to 19th century Britain bringing with them new ideas, values and skills, cracking open its insularity and making the Victorian Age far more liberal and dynamic than we commonly believe it to be. Whether charting the triumph of the exhibition of Gericault's painting The Raft of the Medusa, tracing the exasperation of Richard Wagner at the philistinism of English audiences, following the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson round provincial lecture halls ...
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This work describes the stories of some of the remarkable foreigners who came to 19th century Britain bringing with them new ideas, values and skills, cracking open its insularity and making the Victorian Age far more liberal and dynamic than we commonly believe it to be. Whether charting the triumph of the exhibition of Gericault's painting The Raft of the Medusa, tracing the exasperation of Richard Wagner at the philistinism of English audiences, following the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson round provincial lecture halls, or detailing the bizarre and hilarious activities of American table-rappers, Australian cricketers and Italian ballerinas, this book emphasizes the richness and diversity of Victorian society.
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Very good(+) in very good(+) jacket. Illustrated. 272 pages, 8vo, maroon cloth, d.w.; pages uniformily toned. London: Chatto & Windus, (2000). A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
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N-Fine in N-Fine jacket. Book A square solid tight clean un-read copy. This copy has two corner bumps with resulting minor creasing in the same area of the jacket. Usual pagedge browning. 33 page bibliography/index.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Copy in maroon cloth on boards in clipped D/J. Slight rubbing to base of spine. Coloured end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates.
