The Victorian city : everyday life in Dickens' London /

The Victorian city : everyday life in Dickens' London /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Flanders, Judith.
Imprint:	London : Atlantic Books, 2012.
Description:	xxiv, 520 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London. Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- London (England) Literature Homes. Intellectual life. Manners and customs. London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. England -- London.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8932953

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Varying Form of Title:	Everyday life in Dickens' London
ISBN:	9781848877955 (hbk.) 1848877951 (hbk.) 9780857898814 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-499) and index.
Summary:	For much of the century, London's greatest contemporary observer, Charles Dickens, obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures and vices, curiosities and cruelties. In his company, the author leads us through the markets, sewers, rivers, slums, cemeteries, gin palaces and chop-houses of the Victorian capital, revealing the city in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the cacophonous cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, from the many uses of a dead horse to the unimaginably grueling working lives of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads this book will view London in the same light again.

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Summary:	From the bestselling popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of Britain's -and the world's -greatest novelists: Charles Dickens.
Physical Description:	xxiv, 520 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-499) and index.
ISBN:	9781848877955 1848877951 9780857898814