Devil'S Highway

Devil'S Highway

Urban Anxieties and Subaltern Cultures in London's Sailortown, C.1850-1900

Beaven, Brad

Manchester University Press

01/2025

214

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9781526177926

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Introduction: Seaports and sailortowns
1 The curse of Ratcliffe Highway: Its reputation and its people in the nineteenth Century
2 The imagined geography of Ratcliffe Highway
3 From jolly Jack and Moll to proletarian Jack and Jill: The depictions of sailors and women in a nineteenth century sailortown
4 Leisure in a sailortown
5 The inner world of the seafaring boarding house
6 Sex work and Ratcliffe Highway: brothels, crime, and matriarchal networks
7 Male violence, class and ethnicity in sailortown
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index -- .
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class; criminality; cultural history; gender'ethnic diversity; imperial networks; maritime communities; Ratcliffe Highway; Sailortowns; sin, vice and poverty; subaltern cultures; urban history; Victorian society; working-class history