London clubland: a cultural history of gender and class in late Victorian Britain
Milne-Smith, Amy
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. AMY MILNE-SMITH Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA. INDICE: Coffeehouses to Clubhouses: Understanding the Gentlemen's Clubs ofLondon - 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-12076-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 308
- Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés