03863nam 2200757 450 991079874310332120200520144314.00-7190-9505-0(CKB)3710000000870183(OCoLC)981548316(MdBmJHUP)muse59519(Au-PeEL)EBL4705527(CaPaEBR)ebr11274202(OCoLC)960166193(MiAaPQ)EBC4705527(DE-B1597)659033(DE-B1597)9780719095054(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.Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and diagrams -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 London 1800-1850 -- 2 About town with Mr Punch -- 3 From scaffold culture to the cult of the murderer -- 4 The 'Blood-Stained Stage' revisited -- 5 Selling Sweeney Todd to the masses -- 6 The rise of modern crime reporting -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- IndexWe 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)History1800-1950Edward Lloyd.Great Reform Act.cheap instalment fiction.industrial revolution.nineteenth-century London.penal code.penny novelettes.popular crime literature.popular entertainment.scaffold culture.sensational periodicals.social tensions.traditional amusements.urbanisation.violent Victorians.Violence in popular cultureHistoryTheaterHistoryAmusementsHistory306Crone Rosalind1515712MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798743103321Violent Victorians3751682UNINA