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020    9780719095054|q(electronic bk.) 
020    0719095050|q(electronic bk.) 
035    (OCoLC)958936802 
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050  4 DA683|b.C95 2012 
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100 1  Crone, Rosalind,|eauthor. 
245 10 Violent Victorians :|bpopular entertainment in nineteenth-
       century London /|cRosalind Crone. 
264  1 Manchester ;|aNew York :|bManchester University Press,
       |c2012. 
300    1 online resource :|billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  London 1800-1850 : coping with change, expressing 
       resistance -- About town with Mr Punch -- From scaffold 
       culture to the cult of the murderer -- The 'blood-stained 
       stage' revisited -- Selling Sweeney Todd to the masses -- 
       The rise of modern crime reporting -- Epilogue : 1870--the
       civilizing moment? 
520 8  We are often told that the Victorians were far less 
       violent than their forebears: over the course of the 
       nineteenth century, violent sports were mostly outlawed, 
       violent crime, including homicide, notably declined, and 
       punishments were hidden from public view within prison 
       walls. They were also much more respectable, and actively 
       sought orderly, uplifting, domestic and refined pastimes. 
       Yet these were the very same people who celebrated the 
       exceptionally violent careers of anti-heroes such as the 
       brutal puppet Punch and the murderous barber Sweeney Todd.
       By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody
       and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary 
       Londoners this book challenges our understanding of 
       Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the 
       nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, 're-enactments' 
       of high level violence flourished in travelling 
       entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap 
       instalment fiction and Sunday newspapers. 
588 0  Print version record. 
648  7 1800-1950|2fast 
650  0 Violence in popular culture|zEngland|zLondon|xHistory
       |y19th century. 
650  0 Theater|zEngland|zLondon|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Amusements|zEngland|zLondon|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  7 HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.|2bisacsh 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Amusements.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00808105 
650  7 Manners and customs.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01007815 
650  7 Theater.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01149217 
650  7 Violence in popular culture.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01167297 
651  0 London (England)|xSocial life and customs|y19th century. 
651  0 London (England)|xHistory|y1800-1950. 
651  7 England|zLondon.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204271 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aWithey, Alun.|tPhysick and the family.
       |dManchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; 
       New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave 
       Macmillan, 2011|z9780719085468|w(DLC)  2012382493
       |w(OCoLC)724656909 
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