City of Dreadful Delight

出版者:University Of Chicago Press

作者:Judith R. Walkowitz

页数:368

出版时间:1992-10-15

价格:USD 21.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780226871462

图书标签:历史维多利亚时期英国史gender英国性英国近现代史英文

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From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction. Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and asserted their presence in the public domain. An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms,learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press. A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.

用户评价

写的不错，行业典范，但过于强调的女权主义觉得有点牵强

textbook for senior seminar on European History。为什么我觉得这本书简直就是猎奇。。。

写的不错，行业典范，但过于强调的女权主义觉得有点牵强

非常欣赏作者的视野，虽然是gender研究，但是与阶级等结合起来，对于媒介史的研究也很有启发。美中不足是缺少一幅伦敦的地图。

Walkowitz又是一个新女神。比起Scott自己的Scott Project，我可能反而更喜欢她的写法。因为如果只看discourse的话大概不会像Walkowitz研究开膛手杰克和19世纪末伦敦街头的诸角色那样引人入胜吧。解决了Social History和Poststructuralism之间的致命冲突，简直是打开了新世界的大门。