Title & Author:

The Victorian city : images and realities / edited by H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff.

Publication:

London, Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul [1973]

Description:

2 volumes (xxxii, 957 pages) illustrations 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
v. 1. The urbanizing world / Eric E. Lampard ; Voices from within / Paul Thompson ; The human aggregate / Asa Briggs ; The contagion of numbers / J.A. Banks ; Comers and goers / Raphael Samuel ; Pubs / Brian Harrison ; The literature of the streets / Victor E. Neuburg ; The metropolis on stage / Michael R. Booth ; The camera's eye / G.H. Martin and David Francis ; The face of the industrial city / G.F. Chadwick ; Reading the illegible / Steven Marcus ; The power of the railway / Jack Simmons ; London, the artifact / John Summerson ; House upon house / Donald J. Olsen ; Slums and suburbs / H.J. Dyos and D.A. Reeder ; Another part of the Island / G.F.A. Best ; Metropolitan types / Lynn Lees -- v. 2. The awful sublimity of the Victorian city / Nicholas Taylor ; Victorian artists and the urban milieu / E.D.H. Johnson ; The frightened poets / G. Robert Stange ; From 'know-not-where' to 'nowhere' / George Levine ; The novel between city and country / U.C. Knoepflmacher ; Dickens and London / Philip Collins ; Pictures from the magazines / MichaelWolff and Celina Fox ; Fact and fiction in the EAst End / P.J. Keating ; Unfit for human habitation / Anthony S. Wohl ; Disease, debility, and death / George Rosen ; Training urban man / Ricahrd L. Schoenwald ; Prostitution and paterfamilias / Eric Trudgill ; The culture of poverty / Gertrude Himmelfarb ; Literary voices of an industrial town / Martha Vicinus ; Areas of urban politics / Derek Fraser ; Orange and green / Sybil E. Baker ; Challenge to the Church / David E.H. Mole ; Catholic faith of the Irish slums / Sheridan Gilley ; Feelings and festivals / John Kent ; The way out / Stanley Pierson ; The way we live now / H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff.

Summary:

Victorian City is a study of the social and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of urbanization.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0710073844 (set)
9780710073846 (set)
0710073747
9780710073747
0710073836
9780710073839
0415193249
0415193257 (set)
9780415193245
9780415193252
0710088124
9780710088123

Subject:

Cities and towns Great Britain History.
Cities history.
Villes Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Cities and towns.
Social conditions.
Steden.
Great Britain Social conditions 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales 19e siècle.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Dyos, H. J. (Harold James), 1921-1978, editor.
Wolff, Michael, 1927- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 181559
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Copy: v.1
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Location: Library main 181558
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Copy: v.2
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Location: Library main 181561
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Location: Library main 181560
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Copy: v.2
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