Violent Victorians: popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London
We are often told that the Victorians were far less violent than their forbears: over the course of the nineteenth century, violent sports were mostly outlawed, violent crime, including homicide, notably declined, and punishments were hidden from public view within prison walls. They were also much...
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Manchester
Manchester University Press
2017
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