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Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London
Rosalind Crone
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Description for Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London
Hardback. First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JHBS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, 're-enactments' of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and Sunday newspapers. This book explores the ways in which these entertainments siphoned off much of the actual violence that had hitherto been expressed in all manner of social and political dealings, thus providing a crucial accompaniment to schemes for the reformation of manners and the taming ... Read more
By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, 're-enactments' of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and Sunday newspapers. This book explores the ways in which these entertainments siphoned off much of the actual violence that had hitherto been expressed in all manner of social and political dealings, thus providing a crucial accompaniment to schemes for the reformation of manners and the taming ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719086847
SKU
V9780719086847
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Ref
99-15
About Rosalind Crone
Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University. -- .
Reviews for Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London
Rosalind Crone's Violent Victorians is the kind of book that should be on every undergraduate reading list for 19th-century studies.'
Jennifer Wallis, Reviews in History, 28/06/2012 illuminating, well-researched and persuasively argued...In sum an absorbing, lively read.'
Clive Emsley, BBC History, 01/08/2012 This is a stimulating book, ... Read more
Jennifer Wallis, Reviews in History, 28/06/2012 illuminating, well-researched and persuasively argued...In sum an absorbing, lively read.'
Clive Emsley, BBC History, 01/08/2012 This is a stimulating book, ... Read more