Nicholas Freeman

1895 (eBook, PDF)

Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of the events of this remarkable yearOscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry and its disastrous repercussions dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895, but as this innovative study reveals, the Wilde scandal was by no means the only event to capture the public's imagination that year. Freak weather, a flu epidemic, a General Election, industrial unrest, 'sex novels' and New Women, trials of murderers and fraudsters, accidents, anarchists, bombers, balloonists and bicyclists were all topics of interest and alarm. Had Jack the Ripper returned? Did the Prime Minister have a dreadful secret? Were Aubrey Beardsley's drawings corrupting the nation's morals? Were overpaid foreign players corrupting English football? Could cricket save a degenerate nation from moral ruin?Drawing on strikingly diverse primary sources, Nicholas Freeman examines the recurrent preoccupations of a turbulent year, showing how 1890s' Britain is at once far removed from our own day and yet strangely familiar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748650842
• Artikelnr.: 38218033

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Freeman is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Illustrations
Series Editor's Preface
Into the Past: A Brief Foreword
Winter: 15 September 1894 - 28 February 1895
Changes in the Weather
Punching the Pimp
Artificial Flowers and Strange Perfumes
On the Prowl
Death in Kensington
Christmas Lists and Resolutions
Decorative Salaciousness
A Man's Game
First (K)nights
Changes for the Worse
Renewing Hostilities
Women Who Did
Trivial Comedy, Serious People
Spring: 1 March - 30 May 1895
Degenerate Days, Lugubrious Psychologists
The Tooting Tragedy
Freezing Footballs
Blazing Bibles
Irish Affairs
A Wretched Band of Youths
Panic in Vigo Street
Up Against It
A Grand Day Out
Wilde On Trial
Problem Pictures
Jabez and Oscar
Rosebery Returns
Summer: 1 June 1895 - 31 August 1895
Dandy in the Underworld
Elevation and Excoriation
Flaming June
Rosebery Resigns
The Noble Game
A Dreadful Business
En Vacances
Summer Gleanings
Autumn into Winter: 1 September 1895 - 31 December 1895
Revolting Ladies
Welling Up
Silver and Rubies
Trilbymanial
Ave Satani
Far From Dear Father
Exit Jabez
Jude the Obscene
An Epidemic of Indecency
Endings
Bibliography
Index.