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Nead, Lynda

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Acknowledgements

Lynda Nead

Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London

Acknowledgements

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Lynda Nead

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23356

Acknowledgements

One of the great pleasures of working on the history of London is using the outstanding archives and collections on the subject. I am indebted to the curators and librarians who helped me to explore these collections, shared with me their encyclopaedic knowledge of Victorian London and were a mine of information on the objects and texts in their care. In particular I would like to thank Mireille Galinou, Cathy Ross and Alex Werner at the Museum of London and the staff of the Museum of London Archaeological Service. Ralph Hyde and Jeremy Smith offered advice and help throughout my research in the Department of Prints and Maps at the Guildhall Library. Staff at the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, Chelsea Public Library, City of Westminster Archives Centre, London Metropolitan Archives, London Transport Museum and the University of London Library were also endlessly patient and enthusiastic about my project. Many friends and colleagues shared their ideas and material with me, in particular Deborah Cherry, Steve Connor, Costas Douzinas, Lindsay Farmer, Jane Gough, Frank Mort and Michael Slater. I have learnt much from these people and places.

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BOOKVictorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London

Lynda Nead

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00345

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23354

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.

The book draws on texts and images of many kinds—including acts of Parliament, literature, newspaper reports, private letters, maps, paintings, advertisements, posters, and banned obscene publications. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead explores such intriguing topics as the efforts of urban improvers to move water, air, traffic, goods, and people in the Victorian metropolis; the impact of gas lighting and glass on urban leisure; and the obscenity legislation that emerged in response to new forms of visual mass culture that were perceived as dangerous and pervasive.

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Lynda Nead

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date October 2000 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300107708

EISBN 9780300273700

Illustrations 86

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