Victorian Babylon : People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London

Name: Victorian Babylon : People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
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ISBN: 9780300085051

ISBN-10: 0300085052

ISBN-13: 9780300085051

Edition: 2000

Authors: Lynda Nead

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Lynda Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organised city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture.

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/11/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English



Mapping and movement


Maps and sewers


Great Victorian ways


Speaking to the eye


'The rape of the glances'


A narrative of footsteps


A balloon ascent


Gas and light


A night ascent


Daylight by night


Secrets of the gas


Cremorne pleasure gardens


The last of Cremorne


Streets and obscenity


Moral poisons


Holywell street : the London Ghetto


From alleys to courts : obscenity and the mapping of mid-Victorian London


Temple bar


Reflections on the ruins of London