Violent Victorians : popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London / / Rosalind Crone
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| Autore: |
Crone Rosalind
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| Titolo: |
Violent Victorians : popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London / / Rosalind Crone
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2012 |
| [Place of distribution not identified] : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [date of distribution not identified] | |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 306 |
| Soggetto topico: | Violence in popular culture - England - London - History - 19th century |
| Theater - England - London - History - 19th century | |
| Amusements - England - London - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | London (England) Social life and customs 19th century |
| London (England) History 1800-1950 | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Edward 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 | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Violent Victorians |
| ISBN: | 0-7190-9505-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817416203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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