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VIOLENT VICTORIANS IBD

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
02 / 2012
9780719086847
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Sinopsis

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders.