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| 說明 | 1 online resource (ix, 309 p.) |
| 文字 | text |
| 無媒介 | computer |
| 成冊 | online resource |
| 附註 | Description based on print version record |
| Victoria's Madmen tells the stories of a host of figures who came to exemplify a contradictory history of the Victorian age: not one of Dickensian London and smoking factories, but one of little known revolutionaries and radicals. Clive Bloom mixes extraordinary marginal voices with famous - and infamous - figures, from messiahs like Richard Brothers and Octavia 'Daughter of God'; writers such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton; revolutionaries and radicals like Karl Marx, Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw and Oswald Mosley; madmen like Richard Dadd and Jack the Ripper; orientalists and guerrilla fighters such as T. E. Lawrence; worshippers of Pan such as Arthur Machen, Kenneth Grahame and J.M. Barrie, as well as the Latvian anarchists who killed three policemen in the East End of London. This is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain perfectly captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced society |
| 1. Manypeeplia Upsidownia -- 2. Radical Lunacy -- 3. The Shock of Vril -- 4. Massacre at Trafalgar -- 5. Sherlock Holmes and the Fairies -- 6. Knocking on Heaven's Door -- 7. Tinker Bell on Mars -- 8. Chatterton's Scorcher -- 9. The Death Machine of Hartman the Anarchist -- 10. Russia on the Clyde -- 11. Smoked Salmon and Onions -- 12. Imagined Worlds made Real -- 13. Playing Cricket in the Corridors -- 14. The Collective Dreams of Bees -- 15. The Way of the Ego -- 16. Vegetarian Revolutionaries -- 17. On the Frontier -- 18. The Lifting of the Fog -- 19. The Crusade -- 20. The Sound of Distant Drums |
| Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-294) and index |
| "[The author] mixes extraordinary, marginal voices with famous - and infamous - figures, from messiahs like James Jezreel and Octavia 'Daughter of God'; writers such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and Edward Bulwer-Lytton; revolutionaries and radicals like Karl Marx, Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw and Oswald Mosley; madmen like Richard Dadd and Jack the Ripper; worshippers of Pan such as Arthur Machen, Kenneth Grahame and J.M. Barrie; orientalists and guerrilla fighters like T.E. Lawrence and occultists like Aleister Crowley, to the Latvian anarchists who killed three policemen in the East End of London. This is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice: the non-conformists of the age."--Book jacket |
| 主題 | Spiritualists |
| Theosophists |
| Counterculture |
| Anarchists |
| Environmentalists |
| Revolutionaries |
| Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 |
| Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century |
| Viktoria Großbritannien, Königin, 1819-1901. |
| Nonkonformismus. |
| Viktoria, Großbritannien, Königin, 1819-1901 |
| HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain |
| Electronic books |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9781137318978 (electronic bk.) |
| 113731897X (electronic bk.) |
