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A room of his own : a literary-cultural study of Victorian clubland /

In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, and the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen's clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as "clubland" in Victorian London - the City of Cl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Black, Barbara J., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2012]
Colección:Series in Victorian Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The man in the club window
  • A night at the club
  • Conduct befitting a gentleman : mid-Victorian clubdom and the novel
  • Clubland's special correspondents
  • Membership has its privileges : the imperial clubman at home and away
  • The pleasure of your company in late-Victorian Pall Mall
  • A world of men : an elegy for clubbability
  • Epilogue : A room of her own.