Mapping and movement. Maps and sewers ; Great Victorian ways ; Speaking to the eye ; 'The rape of the glances' ; A narrative of footsteps ; A balloon ascent --
Gas and light. A night ascent ; Daylight by night ; Secrets of the gas ; Cremorne pleasure gardens ; The last of Cremorne --
Streets and obscenity. Moral poisons ; Holywell Street: the London ghetto ; From alleys to courts: obscenity and the mapping of mid-Victorian London ; Temple bar ; Reflections on the ruins of London

In this look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a new account of modernity and metropolitan life. She charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern, organized city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture. She considers the role visual images played in the creation of a vibrant and diverse urban culture and how new kinds of publics