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An edition of The Victorian city (2012)

The Victorian city

everyday life in Dickens' London

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From the critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London.The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain’s foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens’ novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again. - Publisher.

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Thomas Dunne Books
Language
English
Pages
560

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Cover of: The Victorian City
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Jul 14, 2015, St. Martin's Griffin
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Cover of: Victorian City
Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
2012, Atlantic Books, Limited
in English
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Oct 01, 2012, Atlantic Books
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Cover of: The Victorian city
The Victorian city: everyday life in Dickens' London
2012, Thomas Dunne Books
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part one : The city wakes.
1810 : The Berners Street Hoax
Early to rise
On the road
Travelling (mostly) hopefully
In and out of London
Part two : Staying alive.
1861 : The Tooley Street Fire
The world's market
Selling the streets
Slumming
The waters of death
Part three : Enjoying life.
1867 : The Regent's Park Skating Disaster
Street performance
Leisure for all
Feeding the streets
Street theatre
Part four : Sleeping and awake.
1852 : The funeral of the Duke of Wellington
Night entertainment
Street violence
The red-lit streets to death
Appendix : Dickens' publications

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA

Classifications

Library of Congress
DA688 .F54 2014, DA688.F54 2014

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxiii, 520 p.
Number of pages
560
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25638823M
Internet Archive
victoriancityeve0000flan_l2u7
ISBN 13
9781250040213
LCCN
2014007566
OCLC/WorldCat
876370710

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