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_b:Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
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_d:30/11/2018
082 _a942.12 NEA
100 _aNead, Lynda
245 _aVictorian Babylon
_b : people, streets and images in nineteenth-century London
_c/ Lynda Nead
260 _aNew Haven
_b: Yale University Press,
_c ©2000.
300 _aviii, 251 pages
_b: illustrations (some color), maps
_c; 27 cm
365 _b2263
505 _aMapping 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
520 _aIn 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
650 _aLondon England -- History
650 _aSocial conditions
655 _aGreat Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
700 _aNead, Lynda
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