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- catalog abstract ""As London became the first major city of the nineteenth century, new models of representation emerged in the journalism, poetry, fiction, and social commentary of the period. Simon Joyce argues that such writing reflected a persistent worry about the problem of crime but was never able to contain it. Commentators such as Wordsworth, Dickens, Mayhew, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Booth, and Wilde all struggled with the same questions about how to represent London and the relations among its varied populations, yet their accounts often undermined one another." "Whereas Victorian social science presumed a correlation between criminal activity, geographical residence, and social class, the popular literature of the period often sought just as strenuously to deny the link, giving rise to privileged and pathological offenders like Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll. This in turn shifted attention away from the urban slums that had been the setting for the so-called Newgate novels of the 1830s and 1840s. By 1900 crime appears as a distinctively modern problem, requiring large-scale solutions and government intervention in place of an older approach rooted in personal morality or philanthropic paternalism." "Illustrating "literary geography"--In which physical space is not merely a backdrop for the plot but an integral element in shaping textual meaning - Joyce's Capital Offenses reveals how certain geographical patterns not only give weight to interpretive meanings already suggested in the texts but also enable us to read them in a new and surprising light."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Geographies of class and crime in Victorian London".
- catalog contributor b12851389.
- catalog coverage "London (England) In literature.".
- catalog coverage "London (England) Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "London (England) Social conditions.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""As London became the first major city of the nineteenth century, new models of representation emerged in the journalism, poetry, fiction, and social commentary of the period. Simon Joyce argues that such writing reflected a persistent worry about the problem of crime but was never able to contain it. Commentators such as Wordsworth, Dickens, Mayhew, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Booth, and Wilde all struggled with the same questions about how to represent London and the relations among its varied populations, yet their accounts often undermined one another." "Whereas Victorian social science presumed a correlation between criminal activity, geographical residence, and social class, the popular literature of the period often sought just as strenuously to deny the link, giving rise to privileged and pathological offenders like Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll. This in turn shifted attention away from the urban slums that had been the setting for the so-called Newgate novels of the 1830s and 1840s. By 1900 crime appears as a distinctively modern problem, requiring large-scale solutions and government intervention in place of an older approach rooted in personal morality or philanthropic paternalism." "Illustrating "literary geography"--In which physical space is not merely a backdrop for the plot but an integral element in shaping textual meaning - Joyce's Capital Offenses reveals how certain geographical patterns not only give weight to interpretive meanings already suggested in the texts but also enable us to read them in a new and surprising light."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-258) and index.".
- catalog description "Mapping the capital city -- Reading run riot -- Resisting arrest/arresting resistance -- "Lords of the street, and terrors of the way" -- Into darkest London, and back again.".
- catalog extent "viii, 267 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0813921805 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Victorian literature and culture series".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,".
- catalog spatial "England London".
- catalog spatial "London (England) In literature.".
- catalog spatial "London (England) Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "London (England) Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "823/.80932 21".
- catalog subject "Crime England London History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Crime in literature.".
- catalog subject "Criminals in literature.".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English fiction England London History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Geography in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society England London History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR878.C74 J69 2003".
- catalog subject "Place (Philosophy) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Social classes England London History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mapping the capital city -- Reading run riot -- Resisting arrest/arresting resistance -- "Lords of the street, and terrors of the way" -- Into darkest London, and back again.".
- catalog title "Capital offenses : geographies of class and crime in Victorian London / Simon Joyce.".
- catalog title "Geographies of class and crime in Victorian London".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".