Victorian urban settings : essays on the nineteenth-century city and its contexts

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Victorian urban settings : essays on the nineteenth-century city and its contexts

edited by Debra N. Mancoff and D.J. Trela

(Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 1889)(Literature and society in Victorian Britain, v. 1)

Garland, 1996

  • : alk. paper

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"Originally presented as conference papers at the 1993 annual meeting of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association"--Pref

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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

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