Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780815319498 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 288 str.

Debra N. Mancoff; D. J. Trela

Opis

Surveys the imaging and interpretation of the Victorian city and its influence on art and science, in 13 essays from the 1993 annual meeting of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association. The topics include mapping disease in London's east end, Dickens and the theater of homelessness, communities of

Recenzje

"...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

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Debra N. Mancoff, D.J. Trela