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City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

Walkowitz, Judith R.

Paperback

Series: Women in Culture and Society

General Gender StudiesBritish HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0226871460
ISBN13: 9780226871462
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 15 1992
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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

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