Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture - (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) by Kevin A Morrison (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><i>Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture</i> assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>An interdisciplinary study of British liberalism in the nineteenth century</strong></p> <p><em>Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture</em> assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory. It seeks to transform understanding of Victorian liberalism's key conceptual metaphor - that the mind of an individuated subject is private space. Focusing on the environments inhabited by four Victorian writers and intellectuals, it delineates how John Stuart Mill's, Matthew Arnold's, John Morley's, and Robert Browning's commitments to liberalism were shaped by or manifested through the physical spaces in which they worked. The book also asserts the centrality of the embodied experience of actual people to Victorian political thought. Readers will gain new historical and literary understanding and will be introduced to an innovative methodology that links material culture and political theory. </p> <p></p> <p></p><b> <p>Key features</p> <p></p> <ul></b> <p> <li>Addresses interaction between British liberal thinkers and their workplaces as an essential component in your consideration of nineteenth-century liberalism</li> <li>Enhances understanding of Victorian literature and culture and the history of architecture and design through an interdisciplinary approach</li> <li>Bridges differences of perspective between students of material culture and political theory</li> <li>Based on extensive research in British and American archives, utilizing recently unsealed record</li></ul><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture is a masterful rapprochement between methodologies that hardly ever converge. Morrison gives us liberal political philosophy from the inside out, using archival research to peer into the domestic interiors and built environments that framed the influential thought of J.S. Mill, Matthew Arnold, John Morley, and Robert Browning. A crucial study for political theorists and material culture scholars alike.' Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Rutgers University An interdisciplinary study of British liberalism in the nineteenth century Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory. It seeks to transform the understanding of Victorian liberalism's key conceptual metaphor: that the mind of an individuated subject is private space. Focusing on the environments inhabited by four Victorian writers and intellectuals, it delineates how the commitment of John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, John Morley and Robert Browning to liberalism was shaped by or manifested through the physical spaces in which they worked. The book also asserts the centrality of the embodied experience of actual people to Victorian political thought. Readers will gain new historical and literary understanding and will be introduced to an innovative methodology that links material culture and political theory. Kevin A. Morrison is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Syracuse University. He is the editor of Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction (forthcoming in 2018) and Victorian Poverty and Philanthropy: Reading London's East End (2016). Cover image: Guardian Angel, Guercino, 1641 (c) akg-images / De Agostini Picture Lib. / A. Dagli Orti Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-3153-8 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Kevin A. Morrison is Provincial Chair Professor and University Distinguished Professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University. He has authored or edited a number of other works, including the <i>Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction </i>(McFarland, 2018), <i>Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform</i> (Liverpool UP, 2019), and <i>Study Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Sites, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims</i> (Palgrave, 2019). He is a general editor of the journal Cultural History, also published by Edinburgh University Press.<p>
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