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<p>By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody, and confronting amusements patronized by ordinary Londoners, this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, "re-enactments" of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theaters, cheap installment fiction, and Sunday newspapers. This book explores the ways in which these entertainments siphoned off muc
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- Author
- Crone, Rosalind, author
- Publisher
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780719086847
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (11 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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