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The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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271, [1] pp. 8vo. Includes section of glossy black-and-white plates reproducing photographs and engravings from the period. London in 1820 was a city of extraordinary creative dynamism and big money. Rupert Christiansen has marshaled the experiences of a set of remarkable foreign visitors to England, chronicling their impact on British culture and its impact upon them.