ABSTRACT

Confronting the contemporary poststructuralist debate from the perspective of cultural of cultural historiography, this book presents an historical study of race and ethnicity. Specifically, it provides an account, both theoretical and applied, of the combination of sexual, racial and ethnic underpinning and shaping the experiences of English men and women in various colonies in the nineteenth century. Although accessible for the student, the book will be received seriously by both theorists and historians.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|31 pages

English Subjects of Modernity

chapter 2|39 pages

Modernity's Disavowal

Women, the city and the department store

chapter 3|24 pages

Sensation of the Abyss

The urban poor and modernity

chapter 4|28 pages

Night Battles: Hooligan and Citizen

chapter 5|32 pages

Sodomy to Salome

Camp revisions of modernism, modernity and masquerade

chapter 6|15 pages

The Mysteries and Secrets of Women's Bodies

Sexual knowledge in the first half of the twentieth century

chapter 7|32 pages

Black Metropolis, White England

chapter 8|31 pages

Re-Placing British Music

chapter 9|30 pages

What a Day for a Daydream

Modernity, cinema and the popular imagination in the late twentieth century