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Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
by Seth Koven.
Princeton, 399 pp., £19.95, September 2004,0 691 11592 3 Show More
by Seth Koven.
Princeton, 399 pp., £19.95, September 2004,
“... his experience appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette under the title ‘A Night in a Workhouse’. Seth Koven opens his rich and absorbing study of Victorian ‘slumming’ – middle-class men and women’s intrusions into the spaces and lives of the poor – with a virtuosic analysis of Greenwood’s classic articles. The winter of 1865-66, we ... ”