Questions of Chic
Michael Mason, 19 August 1993
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London
by Judith Walkowitz.
Virago, 353 pp., £16.99, November 1992,1 85381 517 9 Show More
by Judith Walkowitz.
Virago, 353 pp., £16.99, November 1992,
Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in 19th-century Married Life
by James Hammerton.
Routledge, 236 pp., £37.50, November 1992,0 415 03622 4 Show More
by James Hammerton.
Routledge, 236 pp., £37.50, November 1992,
Victorian Scandals: Representations of Gender and Class
edited by Kristine Ottersen Garrigan.
Ohio, 337 pp., $34.99, August 1992,0 8214 1019 9 Show More
edited by Kristine Ottersen Garrigan.
Ohio, 337 pp., $34.99, August 1992,
“... relationship with the latter which is avowedly complex. Now, two decades down the line, I see that Judith Walkowitz, in City of Dreadful Delight, routinely puts terms such as ‘reality’, ‘truth’, and ‘facts’ in quotation marks. She doesn’t explain this usage. It is no doubt meant to gesture at an apprehension, by the author, of ... ”
