02859nam 2200553 450 991046613270332120200520144314.00-7190-9505-0(CKB)3710000000870183(MiAaPQ)EBC4705527(OCoLC)981548316(MdBmJHUP)muse59519(Au-PeEL)EBL4705527(CaPaEBR)ebr11274202(OCoLC)960166193(EXLCZ)99371000000087018320161013h20122012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierViolent Victorians popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London /Rosalind CroneManchester, [England] ;New York, New York :Manchester University Press,2012.[Place of distribution not identified] :Palgrave Macmillan,[date of distribution not identified]©20121 online resource (321 pages) illustrations0-7190-8684-1 0-7190-8685-X Includes bibliographical references and index.We are often told that the Victorians were far less violent than their forbears: 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 more respectable, and actively sought orderly, uplifting, domestic and refined pastimes. Yet these were the very same people who celebrated the exceptionally violent careers of anti-heroes such as the brutal puppet Punch and the murderous barber Sweeney Todd. 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.Violence in popular cultureEnglandLondonHistory19th centuryTheaterEnglandLondonHistory19th centuryAmusementsEnglandLondonHistory19th centuryLondon (England)Social life and customs19th centuryLondon (England)History1800-1950Electronic books.Violence in popular cultureHistoryTheaterHistoryAmusementsHistory306Crone Rosalind1035415MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466132703321Violent Victorians2455116UNINA