Title Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London / Seth Koven

Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; 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; PART ONE: INCOGNITOS, FICTIONS, AND CROSS-CLASS MASQUERADES; CHAPTER ONE: 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" Homelessness as Homosexuality: Sexology, Social Policy, and the 1898 Vagrancy ActPostscript: Legacies of "A Night" on Representations of the Homeless Poor; CHAPTER TWO: Dr. Barnardo's Artistic Fictions: Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child; Facts, Fictions, and Epistemologies of Welfare; "The Very Wicked Woman" and "Sodomany" in Dr. Barnardo's Boys' Home; Representing the Ragged Child; Joseph Merrick and the Monstrosity of Poverty; Conclusion; CHAPTER THREE: The American Girl in London: Gender, Journalism, and Social Investigation in the Late Victorian Metropolis Journalism as Autobiography, Autobiography as FictionGender and Journalism; An "American Girl" Impersonating London's Laboring Women; Conclusion; PART TWO: CROSS-CLASS SISTERHOOD AND BROTHERHOOD IN THE SLUMS; CHAPTER FOUR: The Politics and Erotics of Dirt: Cross-Class Sisterhood in the Slums; Cross-Class Sisterhood and the Politics of Dirt; "There will be something the matter with the ladies"; "Nasty Books": Dirty Bodies, Dirty Desires in Women's Slum Novels; Conclusion: "White Gloves" and "Dirty Hoxton Pennies" CHAPTER FIVE: The "New Man" in the Slums: Religion, Masculinity, and the Men's Settlement House MovementThe Sources of "Brotherhood" in Late Victorian England; "Modern Monasteries," "Philanthropic Brotherhoods," and the Origins of the Settlement House Movement; Religion and Codes of Masculinity; "True hermaphrodites realised at last": Sexing the Male Settlement Movement; A Door Unlocked: The Politics of Brotherly Love in the Slums; CONCLUSION; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; NOTES; INDEX Summary In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understanding Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Poor -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Slums -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Sex customs -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Voluntarism -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Charities -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Charities Poor Sex customs Slums Social conditions Voluntarism SUBJECT London (England) -- Social conditions Subject England -- London Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2003060514 ISBN 0691115923 9780691115924

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