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Informationen zum Autor Peter lives in England with his long-suffering wife. His first story was a fictionalized account of a disastrous trip to Las Vegas with a dental abscess. Since then, he has written a vampire story (without any actual vampires) and about a perfectly ordinary day at the office that will last for eternity. Rats In A Maze is his third published book and his first published by Moonshine Cove. Zusammenfassung Lively! innovative! well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry which get inside the popular experience of the pub! music-hall! theatre and comic press. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: social history, cultural studies and the cad; 1. The Victorian middle class and the problem of leisure; 2. A role analysis of working-class respectability; 3. Ally Soper's half-holiday: comic art in the 1880s; 4. Business and good fellowship in the London music hall; 5. Champagne Charlie and the music hall swell song: 6. Music-hall and the knowingness of popular culture; 7. The Victorian barmaid as cultural prototype; 8. Musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892-1914; 9. Breaking the sound barrier; Notes; Index.
