The devil's highway : urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London's sailortown, c. 1850-1900 / Brad Beaven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaven, Brad, author.

Series:

Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)

Studies in popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East End (London, England)--Social conditions--19th century.

East End (London, England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 202 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Branded the Devil's Highway, 19th century Ratcliffe Highway was associated with crime and vice. In contrast, this book argues that sailortown was a distinctive and functional community. This community fostered an urban-maritime culture that shaped a sense of themselves and the conventions that governed subaltern behaviour in the district.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of illustrations

General editor’s foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The curse of Ratcliffe Highway

2 The imagined geography of Ratcliffe Highway

3 From Jolly Jack and Moll to proletarian Jack and Jill

4 Leisure in a sailortown

5 The inner world of the seafaring boarding house

6 Sex work and Ratcliffe Highway

7 Male violence, class, and ethnicity in sailortown

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 17, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526177933

1526177935

OCLC:

1484008845