City of Dreadful Delight
Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

368 pages
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15 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 1992
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Table of Contents

Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introductions
1. Urban Spectatorship
2. Contested Terrain: New Social Actors
3. "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon"
4. "The Maiden Tribute": Cultural Consequences
5. The Men and Women’s Club
6. Science and the Séance: Transgressions of Gender and Genre
7. Jack the Ripper
Epilogue: The Yorkshire Ripper
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introductions
1. Urban Spectatorship
2. Contested Terrain: New Social Actors
3. "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon"
4. "The Maiden Tribute": Cultural Consequences
5. The Men and Women’s Club
6. Science and the Séance: Transgressions of Gender and Genre
7. Jack the Ripper
Epilogue: The Yorkshire Ripper
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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