Description
'Anyone who thinks violent entertainment is a recent development needs to read Rosalind Crone's book. This is an important study that marks a new generation of historians interpreting Victorian popular culture in exciting new ways.' Rohan McWilliam, Senior Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK -- Rohan McWilliam 'In Violent Victorians Rosalind Crone successfully complicates and enriches the too-simple story that historians have told of the steady spread of "respectability" in Victorian England. By looking closely at a broad range of forms of popular culture, she shows how nineteenth-century creations such as Punch and Judy shows and Sweeney Todd the homicidal barber reveal the adaptability, rather than the abolition, of an older "unrespectable" popular culture.' Martin Wiener , Professor of History, Rice University -- Martin Weiner
About the Author
Rosalind Crone is Lecturer in History at the Open University.
Book Information
ISBN 9780719086847
Author Rosalind Crone
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 19mm