Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
The 'perpetual fair'
Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London
by Anne Wohlcke
Description
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 to our understanding of popular culture and modernisation in Britain during the formative years of its global empire. Fascinating examples drawn from literary and visual culture make this an engaging study for scholars and students of late Stuart and early Georgian Britain, urban and gender history, World's Fairs and cultural studies.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date December 2015
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781784992873 / 1784992879
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Pages256
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216x138 mm
- IllustrationIllustrations, black & white
- SeriesGender in History
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