''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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anne Wohlcke, Wohlcke Anne
• Con la collaborazione di: Pamela Sharpe (Editore), Penny Summerfield (Editore)
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781784992873
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-287-3
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Gender in History; Gender in History
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; London, Greater London, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, C 1700 To C 1800