Rosalind Crone

Violent Victorians

Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780719086847
• ISBN-10: 0719086841
• Artikelnr.: 34937516

Autorenporträt

Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures, tables and diagrams Acknowledgements Prologue 1. London
1800-50: Coping with change, expressing resistance 2. About town with Mr
Punch 3. From scaffold culture to the cult of the murderer 4. The
'Blood-Stained Stage' revisited 5. Selling Sweeney Todd to the masses 6.
The rise of modern crime reporting Epilogue: 1870 - The Civilising Moment?
Bibliography Index