Victorian Babylon : people, streets and images in nineteenth-century London /
"The book draws on texts and images of many different kinds - including acts of parliament, literature, newspaper reports, private letters, maps, paintings, advertisements, posters and banned obscene publications. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Nead explores such topics as the efforts of...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[©2000]
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| Summary: | "The book draws on texts and images of many different kinds - including acts of parliament, literature, newspaper reports, private letters, maps, paintings, advertisements, posters and banned obscene publications. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Nead explores such topics as the efforts of urban improvers to move water, air, traffic, goods and people in the Victorian metropolis; the impact of gas lighting and glass on urban leisure; and the obscenity legislation that emerged in response to new forms of visual mass culture that were perceived as dangerous and pervasive."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 251 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300085052 9780300085051 0300107706 9780300107708 |