Format:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780821444351
Series Statement:
Series in Victorian Studies
Content:
In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen's clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as "clubland" in Victorian London--the City of Clubs that arose during the Golden Age of Clubs.
Content:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction The Man in the Club Window -- Chapter 1 A Night at the Club -- Chapter 2 Conduct Befitting a Gentleman Mid-Victorian Clubdom and the Novel -- Chapter 3 Clubland's Special Correspondents -- Chapter 4 Membership Has Its Privileges The Imperial Clubman at Home and Away -- Chapter 5 The Pleasure of Your Company in Late-Victorian Pall Mall -- Chapter 6 A World of Men An Elegy for Clubbability -- Epilogue A Room of Her Own -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821420164
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821420164
Language:
English
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