Mapping the Self: Gender, Space, and Modernity in Mid-Victorian London

摘要: In 1857 the first Obscene Publications Act was passed in Britain. months leading up to passing of this legislation, a debate emerged which focused on spaces modern metropolis, production forms visual culture, and possibility transgressive cultural consumption. One street London became symbol for definition obscenity—Holywell Street Westminster, ran parallel Strand from St Clement Danes Mary-le-Strand. The narrow contours crumbling buildings Elizabethan alley signified physical, moral, impurity, contrast modernising ambitions city period. display obscene images shop windows enabled new form consumption based looking while moving through street. As such, it represented dangerous promiscuity could address women men all classes as they moved metropolis.