''Perpetual Fair'' - Gender, Disorder, and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London

Informationen zum Autor Anne Wohlcke is Associate Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Klappentext This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings Zusammenfassung This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: making a mannered metropolis and taming the 'perpetual fair'1. 'London's Mart': the crowds and culture of eighteenth-century London2. 'Heroick informers' and London spies: religion, politeness and reforming impulses in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century London3. Regulation and resistance: wayward apprentices and other 'evil disposed persons' at London's fairs4. 'Dirty Molly' and 'the greasier Kate': The feminine threat to urban order5. Locating the fair sex at work6. Clocks, monsters, and drolls: gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Anne Wohlcke
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2014
• EAN: 9780719090912
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9091-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Gender in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories