Editorial: Edinburgh University Press
Número de páginas: 192 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-04-2023
EAN: 9781399506717
ISBN: 978-1-3995-0671-7
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
This book argues that the rapid development of anti-vagrancy laws in the late nineteenth century, which were written alongside widespread public fascination with ‘tramps’, facilitated a transatlantic dialogue between sources eager to modernize the state’s ability to describe, catalogue, and manage this roving population. Almost always depicted as white, solitary, and artistic, the tramp character was once a menacing threat to society only to disappear from the public eye by the postwar period.