Victorian Babylon : people, streets and images in nineteenth-century London /

Nead, Lynda.

Victorian Babylon : people, streets and images in nineteenth-century London / Lynda Nead. - New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2005. - viii, 251 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cm.

Originally published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.

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.

Specialized.

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City and town life--History--England--London--19th century.
Gas-lighting--History--England--London--19th century.
Streets--History--England--London--19th century.
Women--History--England--London--19th century.


London (England)--History--1800-1850.
London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.

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