Mr Punchs Victorian Era

Author : Charles L. Graves
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332097855
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Punch's, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint) written by Charles L. Graves and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mr. Punch's, Vol. 1 of 4 The title of this work indicates at once its main source and its limitations. The files of Punch have been generally admitted to be a valuable mine of information on the manners, customs, and fashions of the Victorian age, and of the wealth of material thus provided liberal use has been made. But it must not be forgotten that Punch has always been a London paper, and that in so far as English life is reflected in his pages, London always comes first, though in this volume, and especially during the "Hungry 'Forties," Lancashire comes a very good second. For pictures of provincial society - such, for example, as that given in Cranford or in the novels of Trollope - or of life in Edinburgh or Dublin, the chronicler of Victorian England must look outside Punch. The "country cousin " is not forgotten, but for the most part comes into view when he is on a visit to London, not when he is on his native heath. Yet even with these deductions the amount of material is embarrassingly rich. And this is due not only to the multiplicity of subjects treated, but to the manner in which they were discussed. Of Punch, in his early days at any rate, the criticism recently applied to Victorian writers in general by a writer in Blackwood holds good: "They had a great deal to say, and they said it sometimes in too loud a voice. Such was their virtue, to which their vice was akin. Their vice was the vice of rhetoric. They fell to the temptation of many words. They wrote too often as the tub-thumper speaks, without much self-criticism and with a too fervent desire to be heard immediately and at all costs." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.