ISBN:
0691128006
,
9780691128009
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 399 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Electronic text and image data
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Slumming : Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
DDC:
306.7/086/94209421
Keywords:
Charities ; England ; London ; History ; 19th century
;
London (England) ; Social conditions
;
Poor ; England ; London ; History ; 19th century
;
Sex customs ; England ; London ; History ; 19th century
;
Slums ; England ; London ; History ; 19th century
;
Voluntarism ; England ; London ; History ; 19th century
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION Slumming: Eros and Altruism in Victorian London; Slumming Defined; Who Went Slumming? Sources and Social Categories; Eros and Altruism: James Hinton and the Hintonians; PART ONE: INCOGNITOS, FICTIONS, AND CROSS-CLASS MASQUERADES; CHAPTER ONE: Workhouse Nights: Homelessness, Homosexuality, and Cross-Class Masquerades; James Greenwood and London in 1866; Reading "A Night in a Workhouse"; Responses to "A Night in a Workhouse"
Description / Table of Contents:
Homelessness as Homosexuality: Sexology, Social Policy, and the 1898 Vagrancy ActPostscript: Legacies of "A Night" on Representations of the Homeless Poor; CHAPTER TWO: Dr. Barnardo's Artistic Fictions: Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child; Facts, Fictions, and Epistemologies of Welfare; "The Very Wicked Woman" and "Sodomany" in Dr. Barnardo's Boys' Home; Representing the Ragged Child; Joseph Merrick and the Monstrosity of Poverty; Conclusion; CHAPTER THREE: The American Girl in London: Gender, Journalism, and Social Investigation in the Late Victorian Metropolis
Description / Table of Contents:
Journalism as Autobiography, Autobiography as FictionGender and Journalism ; An "American Girl" Impersonating London's Laboring Women; Conclusion; PART TWO: CROSS-CLASS SISTERHOOD AND BROTHERHOOD IN THE SLUMS; CHAPTER FOUR: The Politics and Erotics of Dirt: Cross-Class Sisterhood in the Slums; Cross-Class Sisterhood and the Politics of Dirt; "There will be something the matter with the ladies"; "Nasty Books": Dirty Bodies, Dirty Desires in Women's Slum Novels; Conclusion: "White Gloves" and "Dirty Hoxton Pennies"
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER FIVE: The "New Man" in the Slums: Religion, Masculinity, and the Men's Settlement House MovementThe Sources of "Brotherhood" in Late Victorian England; "Modern Monasteries," "Philanthropic Brotherhoods," and the Origins of the Settlement House Movement; Religion and Codes of Masculinity; "True hermaphrodites realised at last": Sexing the Male Settlement Movement; A Door Unlocked: The Politics of Brotherly Love in the Slums; CONCLUSION; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; NOTES; INDEX
Note:
Originally published: 2004
,
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book
,
Electronic text and image data
Permalink
