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Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London /
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: slu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2006, ©2004.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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."
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.