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1895 : Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain.
Title:
1895 : Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain.
Author:
Freeman, Nicholas.
ISBN:
9780748650842
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Series:
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Contents:
Front Cover -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Into the Past: A Brief Foreword -- Winter: 15 September 1894 - 28 February 1895 -- Changes in the Weather -- Punching the Pimp -- Artificial Flowers and Strange Perfumes -- On the Prowl -- Death in Kensington -- Christmas Lists and Resolutions -- Decorative Salaciousness -- A Man's Game -- First (K)nights -- Changes for the Worse -- Renewing Hostilities -- Women Who Did -- Trivial Comedy, Serious People -- Notes -- Spring: 1 March 1895 - 30 May 1895 -- Degenerate Days, Lugubrious Psychologists -- The Tooting Tragedy -- Freezing Footballs -- Blazing Bibles -- Irish Affairs -- A Wretched Band of Youths -- Panic in Vigo Street -- Up Against It -- A Grand Day Out -- Wilde on Trial -- Problem Pictures -- Jabez and Oscar -- Rosebery Returns -- Notes -- Summer: 1 June 1895 - 31 August 1895 -- Dandy in the Underworld -- Elevation and Excoriation -- Flaming June -- Rosebery Resigns -- The Noble Game -- A Dreadful Business -- En Vacances -- Summer Gleanings -- Notes -- Autumn into Winter: 1 September 1895 - 31 December 1895 -- Revolting Ladies -- Welling Up -- Silver and Rubies -- Trilbymania -- Ave Satani! -- Far From Dear Father -- Exit Jabez -- Jude the Obscene -- An Epidemic of Indecency -- Endings -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of this remarkable year. Oscar Wilde's disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895. Now, Nicholas Freeman shows that the Wilde scandal was just one of many events to capture the public's imagination that year. Had Jack the Ripper returned? Did the Prime Minister have a dreadful secret? Were Aubrey Beardsley's drawings corrupting the nation? Were overpaid foreign players ruining English football? Could cricket save a nation from moral ruin?Freak weather, flu, a General Election, industrial unrest, New Women, fraud, accidents, anarchists, balloons and bicycles all stirred up interest and alarm. 1895 shows how this turbulent year is at the same time far removed from our own day and strangely familiar.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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