Violent Victorians
Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-century London
Book • 2012
This book explores the various forms of violent entertainment that were popular among ordinary Londoners in the 19th century, including travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction, and Sunday newspapers.
It argues that these entertainments served as a social safety valve and helped in the reformation of manners and the taming of the streets, while also influencing the cultural hegemony of the middle class.
It argues that these entertainments served as a social safety valve and helped in the reformation of manners and the taming of the streets, while also influencing the cultural hegemony of the middle class.
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