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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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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: 2004. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 399 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400843589 1400843588 0691128006 9780691128009 |