Capital Offenses: The Geography Of Class And Crime In Victorian London (Victorian Literature And Culture Series)

As London became the first major city of the nineteenth century, new models of representation emerged in the journalism, poetry, fiction, and social commentary of the period. Simon Joyce argues that such writing reflected a persistent worry about the problem of crime but was never able to contain it. Such commentators as Wordsworth, Dickens, Mayhew, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Booth, and Wilde all struggled with the same questions about how to represent London and the relations among its varied populations, yet their accounts often undermined one another.

• | Author: Simon Joyce
• | Publisher: University Of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: May 24, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 282 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0813935784
• | ISBN-13: 9780813935782