TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nead, Lynda
AU  - Nead, Lynda
TI  - Victorian Babylon:  : people, streets and images in nineteenth-century London
SN  - 9780300107708
U1  - 942.12 NEA 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New Haven 
PB  - : Yale University Press
KW  - London England -- History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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