"Arresting. Koven's scholarship is excellent, and this book will
appeal across a wide range of disciplines."--James Epstein,
Vanderbilt University
"New, fresh and original. Koven is an indefatigable and
energetic researcher, and he looks at cross-class benevolence and
the settlement house movement from a new perspective."--Susan
Pedersen, Columbia University
"This is a brilliantly crafted, deeply researched, and
provocative cultural history. Seth Koven paints a vivid picture of
Victorian and Edwardian slummers and the social and sexual politics
that impelled their urban journeys. This book is essential reading
for cultural critics, historians, urbanists, and scholars of gender
and sexuality. It is interdisciplinary history of the highest
order."--Judith R. Walkowitz, author of "City of Dreadful Delight:
Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London"
""Slumming" adds a new and vital dimension to the modern history
of London. Historians have spent much time examining the changing
condition of outcast London but little on those whose
investigations and explorations revealed that condition. As Seth
Koven reveals, 'slumming' was more than a matter of religious or
political concern. It was exciting, transgressive, and a way of
discovering or releasing another person within the self."--Gareth
Stedman Jones, author of "Outcast London"
"Seth Koven's much awaited "Slumming" gives us a vivid,
authoritative, and astute new history of the Victorian phenomenon
that took hundreds of middle-class men and women into urban 'nether
worlds' of poverty and deprivation. More than any other previous
chronicler of this cultural trend, Koven makes clear that motives
for slumming were complexand morally ambiguous. He also reminds us
that Victorian renderings of children and the poor inaugurated a
tradition of representation in which compassion and voyeurism
coexist uncomfortably and, perhaps, inevitably."--Deborah Epstein
Nord, author of "Walking the Victorian Streets: Women,
Representation, and the City"
"The stories Seth Koven tells in "Slumming" and his insights and
analyses of them are intriguing and convincing. The reader will be
fascinated by his intertwining of sexuality, particularly in its
homoerotic dimension, with activities designed to help the poor.
This brilliant book helps us better to understand both the past and
the present."--Peter Stansky, author of "Sassoon: The Worlds of
Philip and Sybil"
"Subtle, elegant, and insightful, Koven's book explores the
remote, difficult world of Victorian philanthropy. It brings to
life the wealthy men and women and their relations with poor, and
far from deferential, slum-dwellers in all their complexity and
confusion. Superbly written and wonderfully readable."--Pat Thane,
author of "Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present
Issues"
""Slumming" is a brilliant exploration of urban class and gender
relations as seen through the lens of philanthropy. Koven writes
cultural history at its best."--Lynn Hollen Lees, author of "The
Solidarities of Strangers: The Poor Laws and the People,
1700-1948"
"This is a wonderful book, replete with fresh insights about the
complex relations between educated Victorians and the urban poor. A
rich, compelling addition to our understanding of the
past."--Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan, author of "Intimate
Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928"
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