A. Milne-Smith

London Clubland

A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-29886-0
• 1st ed. 2011
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781349298860
• ISBN-10: 1349298867
• Artikelnr.: 45079021

Autorenporträt

AMY MILNE-SMITH is an Assistant Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Coffeehouses to Clubhouses: Understanding the Gentlemen's Clubs of London The Blackball: Looking for the 'Right Sort' of Member Gentlemen Behaving Badly Club Talk, Men's Gossip, and the Creation of a Community The Club as Home: Imagining Male Domesticity Naughty Bachelors, Bad Husbands, and Mixed-Sex Destiny The Importance of Space and Place: Clubland and the Divided Capital

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'Anne Milne-Smith's book on gentlemen's clubs in late Victorian London is a useful addition to the literature on British elites...The book is, in fact, a very good example of cultural history helping to set an agenda for a revivfied social history...' - Ben Griffin, Girton College, University of Cambridge, American Historical Review