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

"In this fascinating and innovative 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 consu...

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1. Verfasser: Nead, Lynda (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven Yale University Press [2000]
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Zusammenfassung:"In this fascinating and innovative 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 were created for these representations. Shifting the focus of the history of modernity from Paris to London, Nead here argues for a different understanding of gender and public space in a society where women joined the everyday life of city streets and entered the debates concerning morality, spectacle, and adventure"--Publisher's description
Beschreibung:Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 29, 2023)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 251 Seiten) 86 Illustrationen (some color), Karten
ISBN:0300273703
9780300273700
DOI:10.37862/aaeportal.00345