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Originally published in two volumes, The Victorian City was a major landmark, particularly in the study of the social and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of urbanization. Unique in its many-sided approach to the total phenomenon of the city, this set deals on many levels with the city environment and includes:
* discussion of the city's growth, fabric, institutions, health, poverty, politics, religion, diversions
* analysis of the ways in which artists, photographers and ordinary people responded to these new landscapes
* rich illustrations from contemporary photographs, lantern slides, magazine illustrations, paintings and other material, much of which was published here for the first time.
The books will appeal to a very wide general audience and command the attention of a wide range of scholars - historians, literary and art historians, social scientists, and architects and town planners.
This set is also available in two volumes:
* Volume One: 0-415-19323-0: 428pp: £125.00
* Volume Two: 0-415-19324-9: 532pp: £125.00
Volume One Preface Acknowledgements I Past and Present 1. The Urbanizing World Eric E. Lampard 2. Voices from Within Paul ThompsonII Numbers of People 3. The Human Aggregate Asa Briggs 4. The Contagion of Numbers J.A. Banks 5. Comers and Goers Raphael Samuel 6. Pubs Brian Harrison The Literature of the Streets Victor E. Neuburg 8. The Metropolis of the Stage Michael R. BoothIII Shapes on the Ground 9. The Camera's Eye G.H. Martin and David Francis 10. The Face of the Industrial City G.F. Chadwick 11. Reading the Illegible Steven Marcus 12. The Power of the Railway Jack Simmons 13. London, the Artifact John Summerson 14. House upon House Donald J. Olson 15. Slums and Suburbs H.J. Dyos and D.A. ReederIV A Change of Accent 16. Another Part of the Island G.F.A. Best 17. Metropolitan Types Lynn LeesVolume TwoV Ideas in the Air 18. The Awful Sublimity of the Victorian City Nicholas Taylor 19. Victorian Artists and the Urban Mileu E.D.H. Johnson 20. The Frightened Poets G. Robert Strange 21. From 'Know-not-Where' to 'Nowhere' George Levine 22. The Novel between City and Country U.C. Knoepflmacher 23. Dickens and London Philip Collins 24. Pictures from the Magazines Michael Wolff and Celina FoxVI A Body of Troubles 25. Fact and Fiction in the East End P.J. Keating 26. Unfit for Human Habitation Anthony S. Wohl 27. Disease, Debility and Death George Rosen 28. Training Urban Man Richard L. Schoenwald 29. Prostitution and the Paterfamilias Eric Trudgill 30. The Culture of Poverty Gertrude HimmelfarbVII A New Earth 31. Literary Voices of an Industrial Town Martha Vicinus 32. Areas of Urban Politics Derek Fraser 33. Orange and Green Sybil E. Baker 34. Challenge to the Church David E. H. Mole 35. Catholic Faith of the Irish Slums Sheridan Gilley 36. Feelings and Festivals John Kent 37. The Way Out Stanley PiersonVIII Epilogue The Way We Live Now H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff Notes on Contributors Index