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Nights out : life in cosmopolitan London / Judith R. Walkowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walkowitz, Judith R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Travel--England--London.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Cosmopolitanism--England--London--History--20th century.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Nightlife--England--London--History--20th century.
- Nightlife.
- City and town life--England--London--History--20th century.
- City and town life.
- Cultural pluralism--England--London--History--20th century.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Popular culture--England--London--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Political culture--England--London--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Social change--England--London--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Soho (London, England)--History--20th century.
- Soho (London, England).
- London (England)--History--20th century.
- London (England).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation. Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness, liminality, and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.
- Contents:
- Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho
- Cosmopolitanism, Feminism, and the Moving Body
- The "Vision of Salome"
- The Italian Restaurant
- Schleppers and Shoppers
- A Jewish Night Out
- The Shady Nightclub
- Windmill Theatre
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-18368-2
- OCLC:
- 1046611430
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