Violent Victorians : popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London /

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We are often told that the Victorians were far less violent than their forebears: over the course of the nineteenth century, violent sports were mostly outlawed, violent crime, including homicide, notably declined, and punishments were hidden from public view within prison walls. They were also much...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crone, Rosalind (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1800-1950
Violence in popular culture > England > London > History > 19th century.
Theater > England > London > History > 19th century.
Amusements > England > London > History > 19th century.
Violence dans la culture populaire > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Amusements
Manners and customs
Theater
Violence in popular culture
London (England) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
London (England) > History > 1800-1950.
Londres (Angleterre) > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Londres (Angleterre) > Histoire > 1800-1950.
England > London
Edward Lloyd.
Great Reform Act.
cheap instalment fiction.
industrial revolution.
nineteenth-century London.
penal code.
penny novelettes.
popular crime literature.
popular entertainment.
scaffold culture.
sensational periodicals.
social tensions.
traditional amusements.
urbanisation.
violent Victorians.
History
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