Vagrancy in the Victorian Age

Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

AvAlistair Robinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-26
Mått:152 x 227 x 14 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009011242

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Alistair Robinson is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.

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'… the first notable scholarly work to concentrate exclusively upon nineteenth-century representations of vagrancy - and as such is a highly welcome addition to the wider domain of vagrancy studies, which has so far generally failed to cover this area in detail … as well as offering a wide-ranging and clear account of some of the defining transitions in nineteenth-century attitudes towards vagrancy, alongside a nuanced analysis of how different authors responded to the figure of the vagrant, Vagrancy in the Victorian Age convincingly captures a sense of how attitudes towards vagrancy converged around adjacent prejudicial and subjugatory discourses, while simultaneously providing an opportunity for radical counter-trends to flourish.' Luke Lewin Davies, Journal of Victorian Culture Online

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I. The Country; 1. Gypsies, Hawkers and Handicraft Tramps; 2. Poachers; Part II. The City; 3. Casual Paupers; 4. Loafers; Part III. The Frontier; 5. Paupers, Vagabonds and American Indians; 6. Beachcombers; Afterword: London 1902.