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Manners and morals in the age of optimism, 1848-1914

Title: Manners and morals in the age of optimism, 1848-1914 / by James Laver.
Author: Laver, James, 1899-1975.
Publication: New York : Harper & Row, ©1966.
Supplementary Content: Finding aid for Newsboy Collection

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Description

272 p. : illus., ports.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Manners and morals

Uniform Title

Manners and morals

Subject

Note

Pub. in England under title: The age of optimism: manners and morals, 1848-1914.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 256-265.

Provenance (note)

From the Peter J. Eckel Newsboy Collection.

Contents

1. The year of revolutions. Social conditions in England ; Chartism ; Revolutionary thinkers ; Revolutions in Paris ; Defeat of the Left -- 2. Mid-Victorian England. Women in society ; Coventry Patmore ; Sex and the birth rate ; Suburban housing ; Snobbery ; Respectability and propriety ; The public schools ; The 'squire' -- 3. Monde and Demi-Monde. Louis Napoleon and 'Miss Howard' ; Alice Ozy ; The Empress Eugénie ; The House of Worth ; The Emperor's mistresses ; The grandes cocottes ; Photography and the nude ; Hortense Schneider ; la Païva ; The Horse Women ; Betting ; The Tranby Croft Affair -- 4. Poverty and prostitution. The London poor ; Origins of prostitution ; On the streets and in the brothels ; Kate Hamilton; Baron Nicholson and the Coal Hole ; London by night ; America ; Reclamation movements; The white slave traffic ; W. T. Stead -- 5. Hymn books and chasubles. High church and nonconformism ; Sabbatarianism ; The teaching of children ; The Papacy ; The Oxford movement ; Science and Darwin ; Bishop Colenso ; The nonconformist conscience -- 6. The inner man. The Victorian dinner ; Wines ; 'Dinner-giving snobs' ; The club ; The beef house and the gin-palace ; The coffee shop ; The teashop ; The restaurant ; Dining out -- 7. Relaxations and dissipations. The 'social round' ; Conversaziones ; Dancing ; The theatre ; The music hall ; Cafés chantants ; Romano's Cabinets particuliers ; Pleasure gardens ; Showboats ; Seaside resorts ; Tourism -- 8. The girl of the period and the new woman. The 'Modern Girl' ; Flirts ; Bloomerism ; The Aesthetic Movement ; Oriental and Greek fashions ; Women's suffrage -- 9. Hail Columbia! Prudery ; Political corruption ; Gambling ; Anthony Comstock ; Religion ; Divorce ; Social entertainment ; Money and social barriers ; Immigration ; American-European marriages ; Temperance ; Jazz -- 10. The paradox of the nineties. The Decadent Movement ; The Yellow Book ; Aubrey Beardsley ; Oscar Wilde ; Jingoism and Kipling ; The Boer War -- 11. High life's last fling. The season ; The demi-monde ; Eve Lavallière ; Mme Steinheil ; The 'German-bath season' ; The Gaiety Girls ; Empire ; Poverty and the Fabians ; War.

LCCN

66020741

OCLC

ocm00249217
249217
SCSB-146856

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library