Late-Victorian London, city of dreadful delight with the new pleasures of the music hall, West End shopping, and the mingling of high and low life where women of every class challenged the traditional privileges of a male elite. It was a city also of sexual repression and the policing of women, of sexual scandal and danger. In this brilliantly illuminating study, Walkowitz shows how these narratives played out complex dramas of power, politics and sexuality, and how they influenced the writing of journalism and fiction and ...
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Late-Victorian London, city of dreadful delight with the new pleasures of the music hall, West End shopping, and the mingling of high and low life where women of every class challenged the traditional privileges of a male elite. It was a city also of sexual repression and the policing of women, of sexual scandal and danger. In this brilliantly illuminating study, Walkowitz shows how these narratives played out complex dramas of power, politics and sexuality, and how they influenced the writing of journalism and fiction and the language of politics. The author persuasively argues that women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolitan life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners and in the letters' columns of the daily press.
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Good Condition. Cover lightly worn and scuffed. Contents mostly clean and unmarked. A good used copy without major flaws. Publisher's note: 'A nuanced reading of a sequence of overlapping narratives of sexual seduction and danger in the 1880's...a rich and rewarding book'-Sally Alexander, HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL Size: 23.5 x 15.4 x 2.4 cm. xiv, 353 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Sex crimes--England--London--History--19th century; Popular culture--England--History--19th century; Sex role--England--History--19th century; Feminism--England--History--19th century; Prostitution--England--London--History-- century; England--Moral conditions; ISBN: 1853815179. ISBN/EAN: 9781853815171. Add. Inventory No: 240222SWT013037.
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Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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Used-Very Good. VG paperback. 1992 publication with B&W illustrations; spine and cover lightly creased; faint, scattered foxing to page fore-edges; faint foxing to initial pages; owner's name on first page; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.