ISBN:
9781526103567
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Gender in History MUP
Series Statement:
Gender in History
Parallel Title:
Print version Wohlcke, Anne The 'perpetual fair' : Gender, disorder and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London
DDC:
305.30941
Keywords:
Sex role ; England ; London ; History ; 18th century
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Amusements ; England ; London ; History ; 18th century
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Fairs ; England ; London ; History ; 18th century
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Popular culture ; England ; London ; History ; 18th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were important in the lives of ordinary Londoners as sites of women's work, sociability, and local and national identity formation. Rarely studied as vital to London's modernisation, urban fairs are a microcosm of
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Making a mannered metropolis and taming the 'perpetual fair' -- 'London's Mart': The crowds and culture of eighteenth-century London fairs -- 'Heroick Informers' and London spies: Religion, politeness, and reforming impulses in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century London -- Regulation and resistance: Wayward apprentices and other 'evil disposed persons' at London's fairs -- 'Dirty Molly' and 'The Greasier Kate': The feminine threat to urban order -- Locating the fair sex at work
Abstract:
Clocks, monsters, and drolls: Gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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