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

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Description:	xvi, 247 p.
Language:	English
Series:	Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1889. Literature and society in Victorian Britain ; v. 1 Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1889. Garland reference library of the humanities. Literature and society in Victorian Britain ; v. 1.
Subject:	City and town life -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses. Cities and towns -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses. English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses. City and town life in literature -- Congresses. Cities and towns in literature -- Congresses. City and town life in art -- Congresses. Cities and towns in art -- Congresses. Cities and towns. Cities and towns in art. Cities and towns in literature. City and town life. City and town life in art. City and town life in literature. English fiction. Literature. Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Congresses. London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Congresses. London (England) -- In literature -- Congresses. London (England) -- In art -- Congresses. England -- London. Great Britain. Conference papers and proceedings. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2467246

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Other authors / contributors:	Mancoff, Debra N., 1950- Trela, D. J. (Dale J.) Midwest Victorian Studies Association. Meeting (1993)
ISBN:	0815319495 (alk. paper)
Notes:	"Originally presented as conference papers at the 1993 annual meeting of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association"--Pref. Includes index.

Table of Contents:

Preface / Debra N. Mancoff and D. J. Trela
Introduction: An Age of Great Cities / Harold Perkin
1. Commercial Sites: The Early Victorian Development of Cannon Street / Linda R. Krause
2. Mapping Contagion in Victorian London: Disease in the East End / Mary Burgan
3. Symbols of Success in Suburbia: The Establishment of Artists' Communities in Late Victorian London / Joseph F. Lamb
4. London, Dickens, & the Theatre of Homelessness / Murray Baumgarten
5. Disvaluing the Popular: London Street Culture, "Industrial Literacy," and the Emergence of Mass Culture in Victorian England / Edward Jacobs
6. The City, the Country, and Communities of Singing Women: Music in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell / Alisa M. Clapp
7. "Oor Location": Scotswomen Poets and the Transition from Rural to Urban Culture / Florence S. Boos
8. Re-forming London: George Cruikshank and the Victorian Age / Anne L. Helmreich
9. Photography and the Image of the London Poor / Thomas Prasch
10. Midnight Scenes and Social Photographs: Thomas Annan's Glasgow / Ian Spring
11. Lessons in Stone: Architecture and Academic Ethos in an Urban Setting / Sarah V. Barnes.

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