Slumming: sexual and social politics in Victorian London
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1. Verfasser: Koven, Seth (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2006, ©2004
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Beschreibung:Originally published: 2004
De Gruyter
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In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understanding
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 399 pages)
ISBN:9780691128009
9781400843589
DOI:10.1515/9781400843589

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