The Mid Victorian Generation, 1846-1886
1998
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This third volume in the New Oxford History of England covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his magisterial study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theodore Hoppen identifies three defining "established industrialism"—the growing acceptance that factory life and manufacturing had come to stay; "multiple national identities" of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom; and "interlocking spheres," which the author uses to illuminate the formation of public culture in the period. This original and authoritative book will define these pivotal forty years in British history for the next generation.
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K. Theodore Hoppen
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K. Theodore Hoppen is a graduate of the National University of Ireland and the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) and taught History at Hull from 1966 to 2003. In 1985-6 he was Benjamin Duke Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and in 1988 a Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge. From 1994 to 1996 he was a British Academy Research Reader and in 2001 was elected a Fellow of the Academy. In 2010 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
