This surging tide of wretchedness’
Gender, danger and progress in nineteenth‐century Newcastle Upon Tyne∗
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12344964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Long (The University of Western Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 107 |
| Pages | 323-342 |
| Publication date | 1996-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1031-461X • E-ISSN: 1940-5049 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10314619608596016 |
| OpenAlex | W2017469788 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
The urban landscape of Victorian Newcastle upon Tyne provides the location for this article, which examines constructions of working‐class femininity in the city across a range of sites. It explores the ways in which women were positioned in discourses about disease, vice, sex and death, and argues that it was as the unsettling vector of disorder that the figure of the poor working‐class woman was most typically invoked in Novocastrian narratives of ‘progress’
Art · Economic history · Femininity · Literature · Media studies · Middle class · Narrative · New england · Newcastle upon tyne · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
The Making of the Modern Body
City of Dreadful Delight
Prostitution and Victorian Society
Social surveillance and subjectification
Prostitutes, Magdalenes and Wayward Girls
Parasexuality and Glamour
Industrialisation and Urban Growth in North-East England
The Sphinx in the city
Women and the Poor Law in Victorian and Edwardian England
Lead Manufacturing in Britain
Gender at Work
The Body Versus the Social Body in the Works of Thomas Malthus and Henry Mayhew
Regulating Bodies
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 1999 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |