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Vice and the Victorians (Hardcover)
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Vice and the Victorians (Hardcover)
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Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave
meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion
played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more
nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance
to the Victorians, has thus far lacked a clear definition. Each
chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks
to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how
the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and
dissent. It considers the cultural geography and spatial dimensions
of vice in the public and private spheres, before moving on to look
at specific vices: the unholy trinity of drink, sex and gambling.
Finally, it shifts from vice to virtue and the efforts of moral
reformers, and reassesses the relationship between vice and
respectability in Victorian life. In his lively and engaging
discussion, Mike Huggins draws on a range of theory and exploits a
wide variety of texts and representations from the periodical
press, parliamentary reports and Acts, novels, obscene
publications, paintings and posters, newspapers, sermons, pamphlets
and investigative works. This will be an illuminating text for
undergraduates studying Victorian Britain as well as anyone wishing
to gain a more nuanced understanding of Victorian society.
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