Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London / Seth Koven.

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2004], ©2004.

xvii, 399 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

I: Incognitos, fictions, and cross-class masquerades -- Workhouse nights: homelessness, homosexuality, and cross-class masquerades -- Dr. Barnardo's artistic fictions: photography, sexuality, and the ragged child -- The American girl in London: gender, journalism, and social investigation in the late victorian metropolis -- II: Cross-class sisterhood and brotherhood in the slums -- The politics and erotics of dirt: cross-class sisterhood in the slums -- The "new man" in the slums: religion, masculinity, and the men's settlement house movement.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-377) and index.