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Author Robinson, Alistair (English teacher), author.

Title Vagrancy in the Victorian age : representing the wandering poor in nineteenth-century literature and culture / Alistair Robinson
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Contents Introduction -- Part I. The country -- Gypsies, hawkers and handicraft tramps -- Poachers -- Part II. The city -- Casual paupers -- Loafers -- Part III. The frontier -- Paupers, vagabonds and American Indians -- Beachcombers -- Afterword : London 1902
Summary "Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms. "-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 05, 2021)
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Tramps in literature.
Tramps -- England
Tramps in art.
Rogues and vagabonds in literature.
Rogues and vagabonds in art.
Rogues and vagabonds in literature
Rogues and vagabonds in art
Civilization
English literature
Tramps
Tramps in art
Tramps in literature
SUBJECT England -- Civilization -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043278
Subject England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021028584
ISBN 9781009022644
1009022644
9781009019392
1009019392