TY  - BOOK
AU  - Black,Barbara
TI  - A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland
T2  - Series in Victorian Studies
SN  - 9780821444351
AV  - PR461.B57 2012 
U1  - 820.9/008 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Athens, OH
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - English literature--19th century--History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society--England--History--19th century
KW  - Clubs--England--London--History
KW  - Men--Books and reading--England--History--19th century
KW  - London (England)--Intellectual life--19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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