LEADER 05322nam 2200829 450 001 996248007203316 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-4358-8 010 $a1-306-04609-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400843589 035 $a(CKB)1000000000548172 035 $a(EBL)1492537 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084880 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12025540 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084880 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10010193 035 $a(PQKB)10881556 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001168270 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11665278 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001168270 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11151678 035 $a(PQKB)11014030 035 $a(OCoLC)904735234 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43197 035 $a(DE-B1597)453643 035 $a(OCoLC)979954448 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400843589 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1492537 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10786927 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL535860 035 $a(OCoLC)861559506 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1492537 035 $a(dli)HEB04963 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005810438 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000548172 100 $a20131106h20062004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSlumming $esexual and social politics in Victorian London /$fSeth Koven 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey ;$aOxfordshire, England :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (420 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12800-6 311 $a0-691-11592-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgements --$tIntroduction. Slumming: Eros and Altruism in Victorian London --$tPart One: Incognitos, Fictions, and Cross-Class Masquerades --$tChapter One. Workhouse Nights: Homelessness, Homosexuality, and Cross-Class Masquerades --$tChapter Two. Dr. Barnardo's Artistic Fictions: Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child --$tChapter Three. The American Girl in London: Gender, Journalism, and Social Investigation in the Late Victorian Metropolis --$tPart Two: Cross-Class Sisterhood and Brotherhood in the Slums --$tChapter Four. The Politics and Erotics of Dirt: Cross-Class Sisterhood in the Slums --$tChapter Five. The "New Man" in the Slums: Religion, Masculinity, and the Men's Settlement House Movement --$tConclusion --$tManuscript Sources --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn the 1880's, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them. By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself." 606 $aPoor$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlums$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSex customs$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aVoluntarism$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCharities$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aLondon (England)$xSocial conditions 615 0$aPoor$xHistory 615 0$aSlums$xHistory 615 0$aSex customs$xHistory 615 0$aVoluntarism$xHistory 615 0$aCharities$xHistory 676 $a306.7/086/94209421 700 $aKoven$b Seth$01011428 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248007203316 996 $aSlumming$92343203 997 $aUNISA