City of Dreadful Delight

Fülszöveg

Women's studies/History
From tabloid exposés of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated vigorously through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction.
s
"This remarkably polished, lucidly argued, long awaited work is innovative cultural history at its best. It is one of the most sophisticated and thorough historical treatments of issues that are of widespread interest, among them sexual conflict and violence against women."—Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan
"C/iy of Dreadful Delight is a significant and original work. Provocative, combative, and consistently stimulating, it brings to its subject the critical and analytical acumen and original, often daring,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Women's studies/History
From tabloid exposés of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated vigorously through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction.
s
"This remarkably polished, lucidly argued, long awaited work is innovative cultural history at its best. It is one of the most sophisticated and thorough historical treatments of issues that are of widespread interest, among them sexual conflict and violence against women."—Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan
"C/iy of Dreadful Delight is a significant and original work. Provocative, combative, and consistently stimulating, it brings to its subject the critical and analytical acumen and original, often daring, approach of a leading feminist historian. Thanks to Walkowitz's dedication and scholarship, approach and sensitivities, a remarkably wide range of late-Victorian urban women, eminent and obscure, 'respectable' and 'outcast', are brought to light and life."—Anthony S. Wohl, Vassar College
Judith R. Walkowitz is professor of history and director of women's studies at The Johns Hopkins University.
Women in Culture and Society A series edited by Catharine R. Stimpson Vissza