A room of his own [[electronic resource] ] : a literary-cultural study of Victorian clubland / / Barbara Black

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463289803321
• Autore: Black Barbara J. <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8214-4435-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Collana: Series in Victorian Studies
• Disciplina: 820.9/008
• Soggetti: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Literature and society - England - History - 19th century; Clubs - England - London - History; Men - Books and reading - England - History - 19th century; Electronic books.; London (England) Intellectual life 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travelers, the Carlton, 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 Clubs that arose during the Golden Age of Clubs. Why were these associations for men only such a powerful emergent institution in nineteenth-century London? Distinctly British, how did these single-sex clubs help fashion men, foster a culture of manliness, and assist in the project of nation building? What can elite mal