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Violent Victorians
ISBN: 9780719095054
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Amusements; Theater; Violence in popular culture;

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.

Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open UniversityRosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University