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Imagining London, 1770-1900 / Alan Robinson.

Imagining London, 1770-1900 / Alan Robinson.

Imagining London, 1770-1900 / Alan Robinson.

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Imagining London, 1770-1900 / Alan Robinson.

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Full title

Imagining London, 1770-1900 / Alan Robinson.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Date

2004.

Call Numbers

N820.93241/2

Record Identifier

74VK6rO7XVwd

MMS ID

991020930179702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

p. cm.

Contents

1. Unruliness and improvement -- 2. Gendered London -- 3. Capital city -- 4. A tale of two cities : Dickens's 'London' -- 5. The painting of modern life -- 6. Aesthetes and Impressionists -- 7. Property and propriety -- 8. In the cage.

Publication information

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

2004.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

"Combining an overview of metropolitan visual culture with detailed textual analysis, this interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of how Londoners sought to make sense of the social transformations of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It argues that they lived in two cities simultaneously: the actual spaces of the metropolis,...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Imagining London, 1770-1900 / Alan Robinson.

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Contextual Information

Other version (online)

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N820.93241/2

Record Identifier

74VK6rO7XVwd

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK6rO7XVwd

Other Identifiers

ISBN

1403932891 (cloth)

9781403932891 (cloth)

DDC

820.93241

820.932421

MMS ID

991020930179702626

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