Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London
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Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London
By (Author) Rosalind Crone
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
1st February 2012
United Kingdom
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Hardback
320
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders. -- .
Reviews
"Rosalind Crone's Violent Victorians is the kind of book that should be on every undergraduate reading list for 19th-century studies.'" -- Jennifer Wallis, Reviews in History, 28/06/2012
illuminating, well-researched and persuasively argued...In sum an absorbing, lively read.' -- Clive Emsley, BBC History, 01/08/2012
"This is a stimulating book, well illustrated and a lively and creative cover." -- Drew Gray, The London Journal, Vol. 37 No. 3, November 2012
"A fascinating and important new study" -- Richard M. Ward, Urban History, Vol. 40
Author Bio
Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University
