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Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London 2012 First Edition Paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250068266
ISBN-13
9781250068262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204091292
Product Key Features
Book Title
Victorian City : Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Social History, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
25 oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Weaving a tapestry as colorful as a market flower display, Flanders not only describes such things as changes in transportation but takes us right into the streets, to battle the mud and to be smothered in dust. The Victorian City is social history at its finest, a must-read for Dickens fans or anyone who loves London. It reminds us why this time period is endlessly fascinating to read about, but probably not a place we'd really want to live., Judith Flanders's erudite and vivid look at 19th-century London is a reminder that what Charles Dickens -an unflinching observer of urban wretchedness, whom Ms. Flanders rightly hails as 'the greatest recorder the London streets has ever known'-chronicled in his novels and journalism was merely life as most people then lived it...Ms. Flanders is a beguiling guide, drawing on Dickens's writings to create an irresistible portrait of the English capital at a time of unprecedented expansion... The Victorian City is the perfect companion to Dickens's work., Flanders (The Invention of Murder) successfully recreates the feel of London at Dickens's peak as she delves deep into the rhythms and architecture of particular neighborhoods.... Flanders's expertise shines when exposing Dickens's embellishments, particularly when his character Fagin faces execution rather than the less powerful but more realistic punishment of deportment. This well-researched sociological overview provides highly detailed context for cultural touchstones, while shattering the popular yet inauthentic image of a pristine Victorian age that never existed., Full of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickens's London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange. Even if you've read Dickens and the contemporary historians of the poor, there is still more to marvel at here., With infectious enthusiasm Judith Flanders dives into the sights, smells, sounds and grit of what was then the largest city the world had ever known: London., A well-stuffed compendium on the transformational era in the history of London that fed both Charles Dickens' imagination and his well of outrage.... Flanders writes with bubbling enthusiasm about the old markets, Covent Garden and Smithfield, with their accompanying din and smells, and the plethora of life we only know through Dickens' eyes: the street vendors and artists, matchstick sellers, slum dwellers, prostitutes, habitués of gin palaces and prisoners. A terrific companion while reading Boz himself., Recreates the textures of everyday life with an anthropologist's understanding of human behaviour alongside a storyteller's eye for character., [Flanders'] imagery is often intense and striking... The streets of London were a constant assault on the senses with their noise and smell. This is a superb portrait of an exciting, thriving, and dangerous city., The teeming, bustling, hand-to-mouth and often smelly facts of mid-19th century urban life have seldom been more vividly presented than in this book., Flanders... is giving famed English novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd a run for his money in their joint delight over all things London. In this new work, Victorian expert Flanders fields just about every question the intelligent reader might have about Dickensian London., A quite extraordinary book, which I read with much enjoyment: an intoxicating blend of London, life and literature... I think it's Judith Flanders' best book yet, which is saying something., Meticulous and gripping... Flanders says that Dickens appealed to contemporaries because he gave them a voyage into the unknown: into parts of London they did not know and where they would not venture. She does something similar for us. The strangeness remains, but the voyage is unforgettable., Flanders captures the variety and colour of 19th-century London, stirring admiration and indignation by turns. To lead us through the Victorian capital, through its hustle and sprawl, its dangers and entertainments, you couldn't hope for a better guide., Flanders uses secondary historical sources alongside Dickens's own impressions of the city to take us on a dazzling journey through an imperial city plagued by poverty and deeply divided by class... Flanders must be given credit for doing an astounding job of recreating every nook and cranny of London in this richly detailed compendium. Shying away from academic pretension, Flanders tells the epic story of this biggest and boldest Victorian city in all its complexity, with verve, color and a straightforward approach to language that still manages to give a voice to ordinary Londoners - something Dickens would no doubt approve of.
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
942.1
Table Of Content
PART ONE: THE CITY WAKES 1810: The Berners Street Hoax 1. Early to Rise 2. On the Road 3. Travelling (Mostly) Hopefully 4. In and Out of London PART TWO: STAYING ALIVE 1861: The Tooley Street Fire 5. The World's Market 6. Selling the Streets 7. Slumming 8. The Waters of Death PART THREE: ENJOYING LIFE 1867: The Regent's Park Skating Disaster 9. Street Performance 10. Leisure for All 11. Feeding the Streets 12. Street Theatre PART FOUR: SLEEPING AND AWAKE 1852: The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington 13. Night Entertainment 14. Street Violence 15. The Red-Lit Streets to Death Appendix: Dickens' Publications by Period
Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder , an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens's London., The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology-railways, street-lighting, and sewers-transformed both the city and the experience of city-living. From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.
LC Classification Number
DA688.F54 2015
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