Title Violent Victorians : popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London / Rosalind Crone

Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents London 1800-1850 : coping with change, expressing resistance -- About town with Mr Punch -- From scaffold culture to the cult of the murderer -- The 'blood-stained stage' revisited -- Selling Sweeney Todd to the masses -- The rise of modern crime reporting -- Epilogue : 1870--the civilizing moment? Summary We are often told that the Victorians were far less violent than their forebears: 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 Analysis 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Violence in popular culture -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Amusements -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain Amusements Manners and customs Theater Violence in popular culture SUBJECT London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078225 London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078210 Subject England -- London Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011279626 ISBN 9780719095054 0719095050

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