London's Shadows

The Dark Side of the Victorian City
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84725-242-5
Verlag: Hambledon Continuum

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known, and the largest city in Europe. In the west a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of ‘Victorian values’. Across the city the situation was very different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous region outside the symbolic ‘walls’ of the original City.

Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, this book explores prostitution and pornography, poverty, revolutionary politics, immigration, the creation of a criminal underclass and the development of policing. It also considers how the sensationalist 'new journalism' took the news of the Ripper murders to all corners of the Empire and to the United States. This is the dark underbelly of London's Victorian history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Drew D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Murder and mayhem in Victorian London Chapter 3: East meets West - the contrasting nature of Victorian London Chapter 4: Read all about it! Ripper news and sensation in Victorian society Chapter 5: The Bitter Cry of Outcast London - poverty, charity and the fear of revolution Chapter 6: City of Dreadful Delights - vice, prostitution and Victorian society Chapter 7: Crime and the criminal class Chapter 8: Watching the detectives - the Police and the hunt for Jack the Ripper Chapter 9: London's shadows

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Drew D. Gray is a lecturer at the University of Northampton. His research centres on the social history of London in the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This is his first book.