Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London

by Rosalind Crone

Book Overview

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. This book explores the ways in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071908685X
• ISBN13: 9780719086854
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"