London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain

by A. Milne-Smith

Overview

This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349298860
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/16/2011
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

AMY MILNE-SMITH is an Assistant Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Coffeehouses to Clubhouses: Understanding the Gentlemen's Clubs of London The Blackball: Looking for the 'Right Sort' of Member Gentlemen Behaving Badly Club Talk, Men's Gossip, and the Creation of a Community The Club as Home: Imagining Male Domesticity Naughty Bachelors, Bad Husbands, and Mixed-Sex Destiny The Importance of Space and Place: Clubland and the Divided Capital