Capital Offenses: The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London by Joyce, Simon

Capital Offenses: The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813921808)

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Capital Offenses: The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London by Joyce, Simon

Capital Offenses: The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London

$59.50
Capital Offenses: The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London by Joyce, Simon

Capital Offenses: The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London

$59.50
Format: Hardcover
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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. Such commentators 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.

Author: Simon Joyce
ISBN-10: 0813921805
ISBN-13: 9780813921808
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2003
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.68w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 908
By Simon Joyce
By Simon Joyce
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Simon Joyce is Associate Professor of English and Director of Literary and Cultural Studies at the College of William and Mary.

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