Victorian Babylon : people, streets and images in Nineteenth-century London

By:

Nead, Lynda

Publication details: London Yale University Press 2000Description: x,251pISBN:

9780300107708

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DDC classification:

711.40942 NEA

Contents:

CONTENTS Acknowledgemens ix Introduction i PART 1 MAPPING AND MOVEMENT Introduction 13 1. Maps and sewers 14 2. Great Victorian ways 27 3. Speaking to the eye 57 4. 'The rape of the glances' 57 5. A narrative of footsteps 74 6. A balloon ascent 79 PART 2 GAS AND LIGHT Introduction 83 1. A night ascent 84 2. Daylight by night 87 3. Secrets of the gas 101 4. Cremorne pleasure gardens 109 5. The last of Cremorne 140 PART 3 STREETS AND OBSCENITY Introduction 149 1. Moral poisons 150 2. Holywell Street: the London Ghetto 161 3. From alleys to courts: obscenity and the mapping of mid-Victorian London 189 4. Temple bar 203 5. Reflections on the ruins of London 212 Notes 216 List of Works Cited 235 Index 246

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgemens ix
Introduction i
PART 1 MAPPING AND MOVEMENT
Introduction 13
1. Maps and sewers 14
2. Great Victorian ways 27
3. Speaking to the eye 57
4. 'The rape of the glances' 57
5. A narrative of footsteps 74
6. A balloon ascent 79
PART 2 GAS AND LIGHT
Introduction 83
1. A night ascent 84
2. Daylight by night 87
3. Secrets of the gas 101
4. Cremorne pleasure gardens 109
5. The last of Cremorne 140
PART 3 STREETS AND OBSCENITY
Introduction 149
1. Moral poisons 150
2. Holywell Street: the London Ghetto 161
3. From alleys to courts: obscenity and the mapping of mid-Victorian London 189
4. Temple bar 203
5. Reflections on the ruins of London 212
Notes 216
List of Works Cited 235
Index 246

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