Vagrancy in the Victorian age: representing the wandering poor in nineteenth-century literature and culture

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...

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Beteilige Person: Robinson, Alistair (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009019392
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009019392
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009019392
Zusammenfassung: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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Introduction -- The country. Gypsies, hawkers and handicraft tramps; Poachers -- The city. Casual paupers; Loafers -- The frontier. Paupers, vagabonds and American Indians; Beachcombers -- Afterword : London 1902
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 254 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009019392
DOI:10.1017/9781009019392