This book explores components of national identity in Victorian Britain by analyzing travel literature. It draws on published and unpublished travel journals by

This book highlights the ways in which Britain and Belgium became culturally entangled as a result of their interaction in the period between the Napoleonic War

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essaysby expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political,social, economic and cultural history o

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