
Victorian Urban Settings
Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 1. July 1996
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-8153-1949-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them. Each essay addresses how the selection or rejection of an urban setting provide the context for a representative product of Victorian art or culture.
Reviews / Votes
"...Essential reading for any student of the Victorian city." -- Victorian Studies"There are a number of good essays. Perkin's introduction is genuinely helpful." -- Albion
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
497 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8153-1949-8 (9780815319498)
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Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts
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Debra N. Mancoff | D.J. Trela
Victorian Urban Settings
Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts
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Debra N. Mancoff | D.J. Trela
Victorian Urban Settings
Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts
E-Book
10/2013
Routledge
€69.99
Available for download
Persons
Debra N. Mancoff, D.J. Trela
Content
Introduction: An Age of Great Cities, Harold Perkin; Chapter 1 Commercial Sites: The Early Victorian Development of Cannon Street, Linda R. Krause; Chapter 2 Mapping Contagion in Victorian London: Disease in the East End, Mary Burgan; Chapter 3 Symbols of Success in Suburbia: The Establishment of Artists' Communities in Late Victorian London, Joseph F. Lamb; Chapter 4 London, Dickens, & the Theatre of Homelessness, Murray Baumgarten; Chapter 5 Disvaluing the Popular: London Street Culture, "Industrial Literacy," and the Emergence of Mass Culture in, Victorian England, Edward Jacobs; Chapter 6 The City, the Country, and Communities of Singing Women: Music in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, Alisa M. Clapp; Chapter 7 "Oor Location": Scotswomen Poets and the Transition from Rural to Urban Culture, Florence S. Boos; Chapter 8 Re-forming London: George Cruikshank and the Victorian Age, Anne L. Helmreich; Chapter 9 Photography and the Image of the London Poor, Thomas Prasch; Chapter 10 Midnight Scenes and Social Photographs: Thomas Annan's Glasgow, Ian Spring; Chapter 11 Lessons in Stone: Architecture and Academic Ethos in an Urban Setting, Sarah V. Barnes;