Slumming Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

Name: Slumming Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
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ISBN: 9780691128009

ISBN-10: 0691128006

ISBN-13: 9780691128009

Edition: 2004

Authors: Seth Koven

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The author tries to make sense of the ideas and movements, institutions and practices that made the slums of London and 'slumming' seem so necessary to thousands of members of the 'comfortable classes' in the 19th and early 20th century. He explores the interplay of sexual and social politics at micro- and macro-levels.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Seth Koven teaches history at Rutgers University. He is the author of "Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London" (Princeton) and the coeditor of "Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States".



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction Slumming: Eros and Altruism in Victorian London


Slumming Defined


Who Went Slumming? Sources and Social Categories


Eros and Altruism: James Hinton and the Hintonians



Incognitos, Fictions, and Cross-Class Masquerades



Workhouse Nights: Homelessness, Homosexuality, and Cross-Class Masquerades


James Greenwood and London in 1866


Reading ""A Night in a Workhouse""


Responses to ""A Night in a Workhouse""


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