Rohan McWilliam (Professor of Professor of Modern British History

Gebundenes Buch

London's West End

Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914

Beschreibung

The first history of the West End of London, showing how the nineteenth-century growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry shaped modern culture and consumer society, and made London a world centre of entertainment and glamour.

Autor

Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and a former President of the British Association for Victorian Studies. A co-director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Victorian Culture and the London Journal. He is also on the Retrieving data. Wait a few seconds and try to cut or copy again. Nineteenth-Century Studies and New Directions in Social and Cultural History. He has published widely on topics ranging from Victorian melodrama to the Labour Party in the 1980s, from the Victorian novelist G.W.M. Reynolds to the director Jonathan Miller. His edited collection on the Victorian publisher Edward Lloyd was the subject of a Times Leader column in 2019.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 241mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9780198823414
• ISBN-10: 019882341X
• Artikelnr.: 58698364