Nights Out Life in Cosmopolitan London

Name: Nights Out Life in Cosmopolitan London
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ISBN: 9780300151947

ISBN-10: 0300151942

ISBN-13: 9780300151947

Edition: 2012

Authors: Judith Walkowitz

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London’s Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation.Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.95" long x 0.16" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Cosmopolitan Soho



Battle of the Empire



The "Vision of Salome"



The Italian Restaurant



Schleppers and Shoppers



A Jewish Night Out



The Shady Nightclub



Windmill Theatre


Epilogue


Abbreviations


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index