Joyce Simon Capital Offenses: The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London 9780813935782

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Автор: Joyce Simon
Название: Capital Offenses: The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London
ISBN: 9780813935782
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Культурология

Социология

ISBN-10: 0813935784
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 282
Вес: 0.42 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2015
Серия: Victorian literature and culture series
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 16
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ,Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900,Cultural studies,Sociology
Подзаголовок: The geography of class and crime in victorian london
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Поставляется из: Англии
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As London became the first major city of the nineteenth century, new models of representation emerged in the journalism, poetry, fiction, and social commentary of the period. Simon Joyce argues that such writing reflected a persistent worry about the problem of crime but was never able to contain it. Such commentators as Wordsworth, Dickens, Mayhew, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Booth, and Wilde all struggled with the same questions about how to represent London and the relations among its varied populations, yet their accounts often undermined one another.

Whereas Victorian social science presumed a correlation between criminal activity, geographical residence, and social class, the popular literature of the period often sought just as strenuously to deny the link, giving rise to privileged and pathological offenders like Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll. This in turn shifted attention away from the urban slums that had been the setting for the so-called Newgate novels of the 1830s and 1840s. By 1900, crime appears as a distinctively modern problem, requiring large-scale solutions and government intervention in place of an older approach that was rooted in personal morality or philanthropic paternalism.

Illustrating literary geography in which physical space is not merely a backdrop for the plot but an integral element in shaping textual meaning Simon Joyces Capital Offenses reveals how certain geographical patterns can not only give weight to interpretive meanings already suggested in the texts but also enable us to read them in a new and surprising light.

Simon Joyce is Associate Professor of English and Director of Literary and Cultural Studies at the College of William and Mary.

Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Дополнительное описание: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900|History|Cultural studies|Sociology

Capital Offenses: The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London, Joyce Simon