Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

by Alistair Robinson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009011243
• ISBN13: 9781009011242
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"