A01=Rosalind Crone
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cheap instalment fiction
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Great Reform Act
industrial revolution
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nineteenth-century London
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penal code
penny novelettes
popular crime literature
popular entertainment
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scaffold culture
sensational periodicals
social tensions
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traditional amusements
urbanisation
violent Victorians
Product details
- ISBN 9780719086854
- Weight: 376g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and Sunday newspapers. This book explores the ways in which these entertainments siphoned off much of the actual violence that had hitherto been expressed in all manner of social and political dealings, thus providing a crucial accompaniment to schemes for the reformation of manners and the taming of the streets, while also serving as a social safety valve and a check on the growing cultural hegemony of the middle class.
Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University.
