Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society

By Trevor Ketner

In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of “outcast London.” Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and economic development. Outcast London is a fascinating and important study of the problem at the center of the crisis: the casual poor and their fraught relations with the labor market, with housing and with middle-class London.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Aug 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781781680551

Trevor Ketner

TREVOR KETNER's chapbooks include Negative of a Photo of Fire, White Combine: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg, and Major Arcana: Minneapolis, winner of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. A 2020 Lambda Literary Fellow, they have been a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow for the Poetry Project, and a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellow. They live in Manhattan with their husband.