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Title Victorian urban settings : essays on the nineteenth-century city and its contexts / edited by Debra N. Mancoff and D.J. Trela ; contributors Sarah V. Barnes [and thirteen others]
Published New York ; Oxfordshire, England : Routledge, 2011
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Literature and Society in Victorian Britain ; Volume 1
Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ; Volume 1889
Garland reference library of the humanities ; Volume 1889.
Garland reference library of the humanities. Literature and society in Victorian Britain ; Volume 1.
Contents ""Cover ""; ""VICTORIAN URBAN SETTINGS ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""LIST OF PLATES""; ""PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION An Age of Great Cities ""; ""MAPPING THE VICTORIAN CITY ""; ""1. Commercial Sites: The Early Victorian Development of Cannon Street ""; ""2. Mapping Contagion in Victorian London: Disease in the East End ""; ""3. Symbols of Success in Suburbia:The Establishment of Artists' Communities in Late Victorian London ""; ""CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY IN AN URBAN SETTING""; ""4. London, Dickens, & the Theatre of Homelessness ""
""5. Disvaluing the Popular: London Street Culture, ""Industrial Literacy, "" and the Emergence of Mass Culture in Victorian England """"6. The City, the Country, and Communities of Singing Women: Music in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell ""; ""7. ""Oor Location"": Scotswomen Poets and the Transition from Rural to Urban Culture ""; ""IMAGING THE VICTORIAN CITY ""; ""8. Re-forming London: George Cruikshank and the Victorian Age ""; ""9. Photography and the Image of the London Poor ""; ""10. Midnight Scenes and Social Photographs: Thomas Annan's Glasgow ""
""11. Lessons in Stone: Architecture and Academic Ethos in an Urban Setting """"NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX""
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
Cities and towns
City and town life
English fiction
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Congresses
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Congresses
Subject England -- London
Great Britain
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Trela, D. J. (Dale J.), editor.
Mancoff, Debra N., 1950- editor.
Barnes, Sarah V., contributor
ISBN 9780203054512
0203054512