A room of his own : a literary-cultural study of Victorian clubland / Barbara Black.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The man in the club window -- A night at the club -- Conduct befitting a gentleman : mid-Victorian clubdom and the novel -- Clubland's special correspondents -- Membership has its privileges : the imperial clubman at home and away -- The pleasure of your company in late-Victorian Pall Mall -- A world of men : an elegy for clubbability -- Epilogue : A room of her own.

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In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, and the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen's clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as "clubland" in Victorian London - the City of Clubs that arose during the Golden Age of Clubs. Why were these associations for men only such a powerful emergent institution in nineteenth-century London? Distinctly British, how did these single-sex clubs help fashion men, foster a culture of manliness, and assist in the project of nation building? What can elite male affiliative culture tell us about nineteenth-century Britishness? This book sheds light on the mysterious ways of male associational culture as it examines such topics as fraternity, sophistication, nostalgia, social capital, celebrity, gossip, and male professionalism.

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