Victorian Urban Settings

Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts
Herausgeber: Mancoff, Debra N.; Trela, D. J.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781138864269
• ISBN-10: 1138864269
• Artikelnr.: 42794540

Autorenporträt

Debra N. Mancoff, D.J. Trela

Inhaltsangabe

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;