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The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Rupert Christiansen
The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Rupert Christiansen

The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Rupert Christiansen

288 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
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Like present-day New York, early-nineteenth-century London was an extraordinarily vibrant and creative metropolis to which visitors -- from scholars to social climbers -- went in search of wealth and fame. Called "an elegant and erudite introducti...

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