London Clubland [electronic resource] : A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain /
Milne-Smith, A.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One Coffeehouses to Clubhouses: Understanding the Gentlemen's Clubs of London; Two The Black Ball: Looking for the "Right Sort" of Member; Three Gentlemen Behaving Badly; Four Club Talk, Men's Gossip, and the Creation of a Community; Five The Club as Home: Imagining Male Domesticity; Six Naughty Bachelors, Bad Husbands, and Mixed- Sex Possibilities; Seven The Importance of Space and Place: Clubland and the Divided Capital; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Great Britain-History.
Sociology.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Gender Studies.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.