Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London

by Rosalind Crone

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By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, 're-enactments' of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and Sunday newspapers. This book explores the ways in which...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:071908685X

ISBN13:9780719086854

Release Date:February 2012

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"

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