London clubland : a cultural history of gender and class in late Victorian Britain

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    • Milne-Smith, Amy

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London clubland : a cultural history of gender and class in late Victorian Britain

by Amy Milne-Smith

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-289) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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

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