Alistair Robinson

Vagrancy in the Victorian Age (eBook, ePUB)

Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009022392
• Artikelnr.: 66176239

Autorenporträt

Alistair Robinson is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Country
1. Gypsies, Hawkers and Handicraft Tramps
2. Poachers
Part II. The City
3. Casual Paupers
4. Loafers
Part III. The Frontier
5. Paupers, Vagabonds and American Indians
6. Beachcombers
Afterword: London 1902.