Violent Victorians

Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

By: Rosalind Crone

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Paperback | 1 February 2012

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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 these entertainments siphoned off much of the actual violence that had hitherto been expressed in all manner of social and political dealings, thus providing a crucial accompaniment to schemes for the reformation of manners and the taming of the streets, while also serving as a social safety valve and a check on the growing cultural hegemony of the middle class.

Industry Reviews

Rosalind Crone's Violent Victorians is the kind of book that should be on every undergraduate reading list for 19th-century studies.'
Jennifer Wallis, Reviews in History, 28/06/2012

'illuminating, well-researched and persuasively argued...In sum an absorbing, lively read.'
Clive Emsley , BBC History, 01/08/2012

'This is a stimulating book, well illustrated and a lively and creative cover.'
Drew Gray, The London Journal, Vol. 37 No. 3, November 2012

'A fascinating and important new study'
Richard M. Ward, Urban History, Vol. 40

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Non-Fiction Social Services & Welfare Crime & Criminology History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Violence in Society Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History

Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Sport & Leisure Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Cultural Studies Popular Culture

List of figures, tables and diagrams	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Prologue	p. 1
London 1800-1850: coping with change, expressing resistance	p. 15
About town with Mr Punch	p. 39
From scaffold culture to the cult of the murderer	p. 75
The 'Blood-Stained Stage' revisited	p. 124
Selling Sweeney Todd to the masses	p. 160
The rise of modern crime reporting	p. 209
Epilogue: 1870 - the civilising moment?	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 272
Index	p. 295
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