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A Room of His Own : A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Series in Victorian StudiesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (332 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444351
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Room of His OwnDDC classification:
  • 820.9/008
LOC classification:
  • PR461.B57 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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