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Slumming exposes the world of Victorian London’s midnight travelers who entered the slums of East London to witness poverty firsthand. Seth Koven traces the identities of these observers, their motivations, and the claims they made. By charting how slumming reshaped understandings of poverty, urban life, social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality—and by examining the ethical tensions between altruism and eroticism—Koven illuminates the complex interplay between politics, social conditions, and sexual desire that has influenced Anglo‑American culture into the twentieth century.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Seth Koven
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