The Victorian City : Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Judith. Flanders
Tale på CD Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : : Atlantic Books Ltd, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (871 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Author biography; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Currency; Maps; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE: THE CITY WAKES; 1810: The Berners Street Hoax; 1. Early to Rise; 2. On the Road; 3. Travelling (Mostly) Hopefully; 4. In and Out of London; PART TWO: STAYING ALIVE; 1861: The Tooley Street Fire; 5. The World's Market; 6. Selling the Streets; 7. Slumming; 8. The Waters of Death; PART THREE: ENJOYING LIFE; 1867: The Regent's Park Skating Disaster; 9. Street Performance; 10. Leisure for All; 11. Feeding the Streets. - 12. Street TheatrePART FOUR: SLEEPING AND AWAKE; 1852: The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington; 13. Night Entertainment; 14. Street Violence; 15. The Red-Lit Streets to Death; Appendix: Dickens' Publications by Period; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Kate Hambly. - The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting and new buildings at every turn. In The Victorian House, Judith Flanders described in intimate detail what went on inside the nineteenth-century home. Now, in The Victorian City, she explores London's outdoors in an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets. From the mome
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| ISBN | 9781848877955
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