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Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

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In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, ...

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Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London 2006, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691128009

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Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London 2004, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691115924

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