TY - BOOK ID - 93413340 TI - Vagrancy in the Victorian age : representing the wandering poor in nineteenth-century literature and culture PY - 2022 SN - 1009019392 1009022644 1316519856 1009022393 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Tramps in art. KW - Tramps KW - Tramps in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - England KW - Civilization KW - Hoboes KW - Vagabonds KW - Vagrants KW - Homeless persons KW - Poor KW - Rogues and vagabonds UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:93413340 AB - Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms. ER -