Looking at the subtle and often bizarre codes of manners that ruled all aspects of Victorian life, Andrew St George demonstrates how far "manners" permeated the Victorian mentality, from the way they talked, dressed, furnished their houses and courted their wives to the way they saw the world, judged their achievements and expressed their inner feelings through literature. He draws links between etiquette books and sermons to the Great Exhibition and the place of women, considers the new "democratic" manners of America, financial speculation and scandal, Darwinian science and decadent verse.
- ISBN10 0701136235
- ISBN13 9780701136239
- Publish Date 15 July 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 November 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English