Year That Shaped the Victorian Age Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845
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Michael Wheeler is a leading cultural and literary historian and presently a Visiting Professor of English Literature at the University of Southampton. His many critically acclaimed books include the prize-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (1990), Ruskin's God (1999), The Old Enemies (2006) and St John and the Victorians (2011) – all published by Cambridge University Press – and, most recently, The Athenæum, published by Yale University Press in 2020.'This lively account shows how a single year came to epitomise so many of the overarching themes of the Victorian age. An inviting read even for those already familiar with the episodes depicted, this is a meticulous and thoroughly-researched tour de force of scholarship by an author who always has new things to say.' Rohan McWilliam, Professor of Modern British History, Anglia Ruskin University
'Remarkably informative, interesting, well-researched, and well-expressed, this study complements the many existing books on Victorian life and culture with both well- known and little-known material approached from a fresh point of view and supplemented in places by the use of hitherto unpublished documents.' Rosemary Ashton, Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London
'Wheeler is a fine cultural historian, and anyone who picks up this book will learn a great deal about the figures he has chosen … (his) study is careful and consistently interesting.' Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Spectator
'In this enthralling study, Wheeler argues that it was in 'the crucible of 1845' that Victorian England came to define itself … Reading Wheeler's chapter on … John Henry Newman - so well does he tell the familiar story - it is as if we are hearing it for the first time.' John Pridmore, Church Times