- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were important in the lives of ordinary Londoners as sites of women's work, sociability, and local and national identity formation. Rarely studied as vital to London's modernisation, urban fairs are a microcosm of London's transforming society demonstrating how metropolitan changes were popularly contested. This study contributes to our understanding of popular culture and modernisation in Britain during the formative years of its global empire. Fascinating examples drawn from literary and visual culture make this an engaging study for scholars and students of late Stuart and early Georgian Britain, urban and gender history, World's Fairs, and cultural studies. --Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Gender in history
- Uniform Title
- Perpetual fair (Online)
- Gender in history.
- Alternative Title
- Perpetual fair (Online)
- Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Making a mannered metroplis and taming the 'perpetual fair' -- 'London's Mart': The crowds and culture of eighteenth-century London fairs -- 'Heroick Informers' and London spies: Religion, politeness, and reforming impulses in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth -century London -- Regulation and resistance: Wayward apprentices and other 'evil disposed persons' at London's fairs -- 'Dirty Molly' and 'The Greasier Kate': The feminine threat to urban order -- Locating the fair sex at work -- Clocks, monsters, and drolls: Gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairs.
- LCCN
- 2014497049
- OCLC
- ssj0001500271
- Author
Wohlcke, Anne.
- Title
The perpetual fair [electronic resource] : gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London / Anne Wohlcke.
- Imprint
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2014.
- Series
Gender in history
Gender in history.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Note
Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London