Fin de Siecle Horrors: Women, Streetwalking, Spectacle and Contagion in London Slum Narratives, 1800-1900

Victoria Le Fevre

Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

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Original languageEnglish
QualificationPh.D.
Awarding Institution
  • Royal Holloway, University of London
Thesis sponsors
Award date1 Jun 2014
Publication statusUnpublished - 2014

Keywords

  • phantasmagoria
  • gothic
  • factory girl
  • New Woman
  • flaneuse
  • prostitute
  • female consumer
  • commercial display
  • grotesque body
  • degeneration
  • slum narratives
  • venereal disease
  • Walter Benjamin
  • match women
  • commodity fetish
  • Gissing
  • Maugham
  • Arthur Morrison
  • Margaret Harkness
  • Besant
  • Kipling

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