Victorian America - Softcover

"Without exception, the essays are lucid, well informed, and eminently readable."--New York Times

"Represents the first systematic effort to investigate the American counterpart to the English cultural, social, and economic phenomenon termed 'Victorianism.'"--History

The contributors cover such seminal topics as modernization, American intellectuals, the origins of the reform movement, the beginnings of the voluntary hospital, literature, and, ultimately, the attack on Victorianism that took place in the early years of the twentieth-century.