Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London / Seth Koven.
2004
HV4085.L6 K68 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London / Seth Koven.
Author
Koven, Seth, 1958-
ISBN
0691115923 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 399 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HV4085.L6 K68 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.7/086/94209421
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-377) and index.
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Table of Contents
I: Incognitos, fictions, and cross-class masquerades
Workhouse nights: homelessness, homosexuality, and cross-class masquerades
Dr. Barnardo's artistic fictions: photography, sexuality, and the ragged child
The American girl in London: gender, journalism, and social investigation in the late victorian metropolis
II: Cross-class sisterhood and brotherhood in the slums
The politics and erotics of dirt: cross-class sisterhood in the slums
The "new man" in the slums: religion, masculinity, and the men's settlement house movement.
Workhouse nights: homelessness, homosexuality, and cross-class masquerades
Dr. Barnardo's artistic fictions: photography, sexuality, and the ragged child
The American girl in London: gender, journalism, and social investigation in the late victorian metropolis
II: Cross-class sisterhood and brotherhood in the slums
The politics and erotics of dirt: cross-class sisterhood in the slums
The "new man" in the slums: religion, masculinity, and the men's settlement house movement.