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

by Debra N. Mancoff (Editor), D.J. Trela (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138864269
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/07/2015
Series:	Literature and Society in Victorian Britain
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Debra N. Mancoff, D.J. Trela

Table of Contents

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;

Editorial Reviews

"...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

From the Publisher

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 singing women in the novels of Alisa M. Clapp, photography and the London poor, and architecture and academic ethos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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