Walking the Victorian Streets

Nord, Deborah Epstein

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“…Working women occupied the urban world, not just as the adjuncts of 'sporting' men, as prostitutes and publicly available women, but in their own right and often on their own terms: as Deborah Epstein Nord has argued, women 'ventured into public spaces and into their own project of public representation'. 77 Christine Stansell has similarly demonstrated for New York how working-class women, marginalized and oppressed as they undoubtedly were, nevertheless helped shape this urban culture. In particular, she argues, 'single women claimed their part in a youthful milieu where they could conduct -to a greater or lesser degree -their own pleasures and affairs'.…”

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“…They are necessarily static, diversified, sexual spectacles for the roving urban male. 62 Now Nicholson nevertheless claims utter respectability for The town and its provision of this kind of information, insisting on it in fact as a kind of public service, in exactly the same way that the 'sporting' guidebooks were wont to do: we wish it to be clearly understood, that we are not the advocates of vice or profligacy. Our sketches are intended to serve a great moral purpose; and we shall endeavour to say nothing to offend the most fastidious.…”

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Sex and the City of Bachelors: Sporting Guidebooks and Urban Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Howell¹

2001

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Guidebooks to brothels and prostitutes flourished in mid-nineteenth century Britain and America, particularly in the great cities of London and New York. This paper treats such guides as a form of imaginative mapping, associated with a ‘sporting’ male culture of sexually predatory men and an ideal city of male sexual opportunity. Such guidebooks offered to their readers a particular form of urban knowledge, primarily through the construction of the persona of the ‘man about town’, holding out the promise of ordering the confusing realities of the sprawling nineteenth-century metropolis. However, the guidebook genre necessarily admits something of the anxieties, ignorance and vulnerability of the would-be men about town who made up its readers, and this paper concludes that this literature should be considered as an elaborate ideological fantasy, constraining as well as constructing masculine identities, rather than simply evidence for the confident male appropriation of public space.

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Sex and the City of Bachelors: Sporting Guidebooks and Urban Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Howell¹

2001

Ecumene

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“…The urban feminist theorists (Elizabeth Grosz, Janet Wolff) challenge the traditional phallocentric representation of a female urban walker, and explore the concept of identity and a mode of urban corporeality from a feminist perspective. Nord (1995) suggests that the most important thing is to explore the complexity of the female gaze, especially what difference gender makes to the position of observer (p.12). According to Grosz (1998), bodies-cities are not monolithic but mutually co-defining entities.…”

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“It’s Karachi, Its, Where Life and Love Come to Die”: Representing Gender, Space and Identity in Karachi You are Killing Me

Qasim

2022

PJGS

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This paper demonstrates that Saba Imtiaz’s Karachi You Are Killing Me, re-conceptualizes the relationship between urban spaces and female bodies. The traditional urban theories define space as unchangeable physical reality that profoundly affects its inhabitants. Feminist urban theorists question the traditional gendered perspective on both space and corporeality. Drawing on Elizabeth Grosz (1998) concept on bodies cities, I will investigate how woman as being both spectator and spectacle renegotiates her identity within the patriarchal urban spaces. This research argues that Grosz’s (1998) concept of Bodies-cities is an important intervention in our understanding of spatial politics in postcolonial spaces, as it discusses how female bodies play an important role in the formation of urban corporeality. Her seminal feminist work invents a new insight into the city-body nexus that also helps to address issues such as gender discrimination, inequalities, and urban violence.

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“…ation of the man in the crowd, and the display and selling of all things," Kravchinskii delineates Russia's alter-modernity-in which the capital's deceptively western facade conceals an eastern war between Cossack spies and dagger-toting, but "poetical and tender," Nihilists. 82 This alter-modernity, as Kravchinskii surely recognized, exerted its exotic attractions upon its European audience and courted an orientalizing gaze. More so than Petersburg, "the old capital" Moscow ("that half-Asiatic city, immense as antique Babylon or Nineveh") dramatizes the stand-off between the decrepit Orient, already half in ruins, and the ultramodern agents and technologies (dynamite) of destruction.…”

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Remembering “The Terrorism”: Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinskii'sUnderground Russia

Patyk

2009

Slavic rev.

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How was terrorism first remembered when it surged up from the Russian underground in the third quarter of the nineteenth century? In this article, Lynn Ellen Patyk argues that memory is indispensible to terrorism and that historians’ attribution of the “invention of modern terrorism“ to Russian revolutionaries in the mid-nineteenth century is as much a testament to these revolutionaries’ mnemonic savvy as to their tactical innovation. The revolutionary-litterateur Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinskii (1852-1895) was at the avant-garde of this innovation, and this article analyzes his mastery of the implicit mnemonics of the terrorist deed and then of its literary commemoration in Underground Russia: Revolutionary Profiles and Sketches from Life (1882). Stepniak-Kravchinskii uses historical narrative to perform essential plot revisions and linguistic reclamations (for example, of the word Nihilist) and employs the device of “personal recollections” to authenticate and lend emotional and sensual immediacy to his representation of “the Terrorism” and its place of origin, Underground Russia.

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Walking the Victorian Streets

Cited by 274 publications

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Sex and the City of Bachelors: Sporting Guidebooks and Urban Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Sex and the City of Bachelors: Sporting Guidebooks and Urban Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

“It’s Karachi, Its, Where Life and Love Come to Die”: Representing Gender, Space and Identity in Karachi You are Killing Me

Remembering “The Terrorism”: Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinskii'sUnderground Russia

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