At the margins of Victorian Britain [electronic resource] : politics, immorality and Britishness in the nineteenth century / Dennis Grube.

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Victorian Britain, at the head of the vast British Empire, was the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, yet many of its citizens were denied basic civil rights. 'At the Margins of Victorian Britain' focuses on the political means of policing unwanted 'others' in Victorian society: the...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Library of Victorian studies ; 7.
Main Author: Grube, Dennis
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Series:Library of Victorian studies ; 7.
Subjects:
Marginality, Social > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Minorities > Civil rights > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Discrimination > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Prejudices > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
At the Margins of Victorian Britain: Politics, Immorality and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: 'Britishness' and the 'other'
  • British law and the Irish other
  • Ireland on trial: the Parnell experience
  • British Jews: the search for equality
  • The politics of atheism
  • Roman Catholics: the enduring 'other'
  • The new Jewish theme
  • 'Un-British' women: the 'problem' of prostitution
  • Containing deviance: the legal limits of male sexuality
  • Conclusion.