Description: Further DetailsTitle: City of Dreadful DelightCondition: NewEAN: 9780226871462ISBN: 9780226871462Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/15/1992Author: Judith R. WalkowitzLanguage: EnglishDescription: From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction. Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and asserted their presence in the public domain. An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution.Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidian stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotian life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press. A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & RelationshipsSubtitle: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian LondonItem Height: 23mmItem Length: 16mmItem Width: 2mmItem Weight: 567gBook Series: Women in Culture & Society Series WCSRelease Year: 1992 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: City of Dreadful Delight
Title: City of Dreadful Delight
EAN: 9780226871462
ISBN: 9780226871462
Release Date: 10/15/1992
Release Year: 1992
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Subtitle: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
Series: Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
Book Title: City of Dreadful Delight : Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 1992
Topic: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Women's Studies, Europe / Great Britain / General, Prostitution & Sex Trade, Criminology
Item Height: 0.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 19.8 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Judith R. Walkowitz
Book Series: Women in Culture and Society Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
