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Love in the time of Victoria : sexuality, class, and gender in nineteenth-century London by Françoise Barret-Ducrocq is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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'Vice and wretchedness exist in their most appalling and hideous forms, stalking about with bold front, unblushingly, as though vice were virtue.' For the middle-class moralists and reformers of Victorian London, poverty was synonymous with depravity: their descriptions of the urban working classes portray a swarming, undifferentiated mass, impoverished and immoral. In the absence of written accounts by the poor themselves, these nineteenth-century prejudices still cloud our understanding of pop
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- Author
- Françoise Barret-Ducrocq
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781786637284
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Gender Studies
- Rating
- 3.48 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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