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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Main Author: Crone, Rosalind (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence in popular culture.
Theater.
Manners and customs.
Amusements.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Theâtre > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Violence dans la culture populaire > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Amusements > England > London > History > 19th century.
Theater > England > London > History > 19th century.
Violence in popular culture > England > London > History > 19th century.
England > London.
Londres (Angleterre) > Histoire > 1800-1950.
Londres (Angleterre) > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siecle.
London (England) > History > 1800-1950.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • London 1800-1850 : coping with change, expressing resistance
  • About town with Mr Punch
  • From scaffold culture to the cult of the murderer
  • The 'blood-stained stage' revisited
  • Selling Sweeney Todd to the masses
  • The rise of modern crime reporting
  • Epilogue : 1870--the civilizing moment?

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