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The ´Perpetual Fair´: Gender, Disorder, and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London
Anne Wohlcke
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Description for The ´Perpetual Fair´: Gender, Disorder, and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London
Paperback. This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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. Now available in paperback, this study contributes ... Read more
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. Now available in paperback, this study contributes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Gender in History
Condition
New
Weight
354g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784992873
SKU
V9781784992873
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About Anne Wohlcke
Anne Wohlcke is Associate Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona -- .
Reviews for The ´Perpetual Fair´: Gender, Disorder, and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London
'Wohlcke's book provides not only a new history of London's fairs but also makes a valuable contribution to the historiography of women's work and the debates on gender and the city. It is a book well worth reading.' Louise Falcini, The English Historical Review, March 2016
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