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

By: Nead, LyndaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2005Description: viii, 251 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cmISBN: 9780300107708 (pbk.) :; 0300107706 (pbk.) :Subject(s): City and town life -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century | Gas-lighting -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century | Streets -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century | Women -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century | London (England) -- History -- 1800-1850 | London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 942.1'081 Summary: 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.

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.

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