Manypeeplia Upsidownia

Abstract

In the sewers something stirs. The Victorian age appears to us so stable and so assured, and yet voices from subterranean depths proclaimed strange futures from deep in the labyrinth; Victoria Imperatrix: an empress of a world of strange shadows. This is the story of those Victorian political, personal and cultural struggles from which the modern world emerged and here are those Victorian individuals whose often strange ideas created the atmosphere of changing times. This book concentrates on two neglected aspects of Victorian Britain — personal alienation and social revolution — and how these forces had a profound affect both on the conduct of individuals and on the very idea of the society that these individuals inhabited.