Violent Victorians : Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

Name: Violent Victorians
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9780719086854
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9780719086854

by Rosalind Crone

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 071908685X

ISBN-13 9780719086854

Publisher Manchester University Press

Imprint Manchester University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 1st, 2012

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 408 grams

Dimensions 13.70 x 21.70 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: British & Irish history Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Social & cultural history Sociology: sport & leisure Sociology: sport and leisure History European history Social and cultural history

KSh 4,500.00

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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. -- .

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 of the streets, while also serving as a social safety valve and a check on the growing cultural hegemony of the middle class.

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