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- Title
The Sentimental Policeman: Poetry and Social Mobility in the Police Review and Parade Gossip.
- Authors
Guest, Kristen
- Abstract
The article offers criticism on poems written by Victorian policemen and published in the periodical "Police Review and Parade Gossip" in the 1890s, including "Our Life," "The Uniform" by William Emsden, and "Our Bobby." The author focuses on the social conditions of policemen, suggesting that most policemen came from the lower classes but identified with the middle class. The author also discusses sentimentality and masculinity in the poems.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY criticism; POLICE; HISTORY of the police; SOCIAL mobility; UNIFORM, The (Poem); EMSDEN, William; OUR Life (Poem); OUR Bobby (Poem); HISTORY; AUTHORSHIP; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2012, Vol 50, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2012.0000