The Victorian city : everyday life in Dickens' London /

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Author / Creator:Flanders, Judith.
Imprint:London : Atlantic Books, 2012.
Description:xxiv, 520 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language:English
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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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