Victorian Material Culture

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This volume on ‘Victorian Arts’ will include sources on painting sculpture, book illustration, photography and the much-neglected area of Victorian stained glass.

About the Author

Victoria Mills is Lecturer in Victorian and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, Univesity of London, UK

Kate Nichols is Birmingham Fellow in British Art at the Department of Art History, Curating, and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham, UK