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The perpetual fair : gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London / Anne Wohlcke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wohlcke, Anne, author.
- Series:
- Gender in history.
- Gender in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bartholomew Fair--History.
- Bartholomew Fair.
- Sex role--England--London--History--18th century.
- Sex role.
- Amusements--England--London--History--18th century.
- Amusements.
- Fairs--England--London--History--18th century.
- Fairs.
- Popular culture--England--London--History--18th century.
- Popular culture.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital file(s).
- Other Title:
- Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014.
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were important in the lives of ordinary Londoners as sites of women's work, sociability, and local and national identity formation. Rarely studied as vital to London's modernisation, urban fairs are a microcosm of London's transforming society demonstrating how metropolitan changes were popularly contested. This study contributes to our understanding of popular culture and modernisation in Britain during the formative years of its global empire. Fascinating examples drawn from literary and visual culture make this an engaging study for scholars and students of late Stuart and early Georgian Britain, urban and gender history, World's Fairs, and cultural studies. --Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Making a mannered metroplis and taming the 'perpetual fair'
- 'London's Mart': The crowds and culture of eighteenth-century London fairs
- 'Heroick Informers' and London spies: Religion, politeness, and reforming impulses in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth -century London
- Regulation and resistance: Wayward apprentices and other 'evil disposed persons' at London's fairs
- 'Dirty Molly' and 'The Greasier Kate': The feminine threat to urban order
- Locating the fair sex at work
- Clocks, monsters, and drolls: Gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairs.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781526101136
- 1526101130
- 9781781706442
- 1781706441
- 9781526103567
- 1526103567
- OCLC:
- 980743178
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