Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
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Book Overview
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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691115923
ISBN13:9780691115924
Release Date:September 2004
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:392 Pages
Weight:1.63 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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Slumming
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Seth Koven has exercised esxcellent scholarship in this fascinating account of Victorian London. Koven delves deeply into the various motivations (from charitable to journalistic to seeking a sexual outlet) of upper crust individuals who chose to frequent the slums of London. A must read for anyone interested in the cultural history of Victorian London.
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