London Clubland
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London Clubland

A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

London Clubland

A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain

About this book

This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature ofthe 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. One Coffeehouses to Clubhouses: Understanding the Gentlemen’s Clubs of London
  10. Two The Black Ball: Looking for the “Right Sort” of Member
  11. Three Gentlemen Behaving Badly
  12. Four Club Talk, Men’s Gossip, and the Creation of a Community
  13. Five The Club as Home: Imagining Male Domesticity
  14. Six Naughty Bachelors, Bad Husbands, and Mixed- Sex Possibilities
  15. Seven The Importance of Space and Place: Clubland and the Divided Capital
  16. Epilogue
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index