E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Gender in History
Wohlcke The 'perpetual fair'
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0356-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London
E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Gender in History
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0356-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings
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Introduction: making a mannered metropolis and taming the ‘perpetual fair’
1. ‘London’s Mart’: the crowds and culture of eighteenth–century London
2. ‘Heroick informers’ and London spies: religion, politeness and reforming impulses in late seventeenth and early eighteenth–century London
3. Regulation and resistance: wayward apprentices and other ‘evil disposed persons’ at London’s fairs
4. ‘Dirty Molly’ and ‘the greasier Kate’: The feminine threat to urban order
5. Locating the fair sex at work
6. Clocks, monsters, and drolls: gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairs
Conclusion
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