Victorian London Slums Seven Dials

Author : Terry Trainor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471696688

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Victorian London Slums Seven Dials by Terry Trainor Pdf

The Seven Dials refers to the layout of the cobbled streets in this London 'village,' which includes Monmouth Street, Earlham Street and Mercer Street. The seven streets radiate out from the central sundial Looking closely you'll see the dial only has only six faces; this is due to an earlier urban planning drawn up by Thomas Neale in the 17th century who devised the characteristic seven dials street layout to maximize the number of houses that could be built on the site so maximizing his profit.

Author : Helen Amy
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445695389

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Everyday Life in Victorian London by Helen Amy Pdf

A portrait of London and its people - from the richest to the poorest - when it was the world's greatest and most quickly expanding city.

Author : Meredith Veldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000565959

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The British Jesus, 1850-1970 by Meredith Veldman Pdf

The British Jesus focuses on the Jesus of the religious culture dominant in Britain from the 1850s through the 1950s, the popular Christian culture shared by not only church, kirk, and chapel goers, but also the growing numbers of Britons who rarely or only episodically entered a house of worship. An essay in intellectual as well as cultural history, this book illumines the interplay between and among British New Testament scholarship, institutional Christianity, and the wider Protestant culture. The scholars who mapped and led the uniquely British quest for the historical Jesus in the first half of the twentieth century were active participants in efforts to replace the popular image of “Jesus in a white nightie” with a stronger figure, and so, they hoped, to preserve Britain’s Christian identity. They failed. By exploring that failure, and more broadly, by examining the relations and exchanges between popular, artistic, and scholarly portrayals of Jesus, this book highlights the continuity and the conservatism of Britain’s popular Christianity through a century of religious and cultural transformation. Exploring depictions of Jesus from over more than one hundred years, this book is a crucial resource for scholars of British Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : B. Korte,G. Zipp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137429292

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Poverty in Contemporary Literature by B. Korte,G. Zipp Pdf

Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.

Author : Blanchard Jerrold,Gustave Doré
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017115697

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London, a Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold,Gustave Doré Pdf

London in the middle of the 1800s was a subject endlessly sketched by artists, studied by social reformers, and discussed by writers. This comprehensive collection of drawings by Gustave Dor,̌ France's most celebrated graphic artist of the period, presents a panoramic portrait of that engrossing city - from fashionable ladies riding in a sunlit park to ragged wretches in a shadowy side street. Here are amazingly perceptive sketches of workaday London, busy market places, the Christy Minstrels, a waterman's family, thieves gambling, the Devils' Acre in Westminster, flower girls, waifs and strays, a wedding at the Abbey, provincials in search of lodgings, a garden party, prisoners in the Newgate exercise yard, stalls at Covent Garden Opera House, and many other scenes that capture the London of a bygone era.

Author : Aidan Cruttenden
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 023752256X

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The Victorians by Aidan Cruttenden Pdf

A discussion of the Victorians and their literature. It sets out the political, social and economic framework of the period, and then goes on to study the various influences on the novel, addresses the forms and styles of poetry and, finally, provides an overview of Victorian drama. Each chapter features a further reading list and there is a comparative time-line, a biographical glossary and a list of websites. The volume is part of a series which sets writers and literary works of different types and periods in their historical, social and cultural context and provides an introduction to various genres.

Author : Adolphe Smith,John Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1910144266

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Street Life in London by Adolphe Smith,John Thomson Pdf

Street Life in London (1877-78), by journalist Adolphe Smith and photographer John Thomson, aimed to reveal by the innovative use of photography and essays the conditions of a life of poverty in London. Now regarded as a pioneering photo-text and a foundational work of socially conscious photography - "one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history" (The Photobook: A History) - Street Life in London failed to achieve commercial success in its own time. In this groundbreaking book, we see the start, but not the conclusion, of a conversation between text and image in the service of education, reportage and social justice. This newly designed and typeset edition contains the full text and makes available to a contemporary audience Thomson's powerful images in their original size and rich colour.

Author : Daniel Pool
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439144800

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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Pdf

A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs. An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.

Author : Harold James Dyos,Michael Wolff
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0415193230

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The Victorian City by Harold James Dyos,Michael Wolff Pdf

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

Author : James Alfred Yelling
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0049421921

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Slums and Slum Clearance in Victorian London by James Alfred Yelling Pdf

Author : Christian Gutleben
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789401207249

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Neo-Victorian Families by Christian Gutleben Pdf

Tracing representations of re-imagined Victorian families in literature, film and television, and social discourse, this collection, the second volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, analyses the historical trajectory of persistent but increasingly contested cultural myths that coalesce around the heterosexual couple and nuclear family as the supposed ‘normative’ foundation of communities and nations, past and present. It sheds new light on the significance of families as a source of fluctuating cultural capital, deployed in diverse arenas from political debates, social policy and identity politics to equal rights activism, and analyses how residual as well as emergent ideologies of family are mediated and critiqued by contemporary arts and popular culture. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of neo-Victorian studies, as well as scholars in contemporary literature and film studies, cultural studies and the history of the family. Situating the nineteenth-century family both as a site of debilitating trauma and the means of ethical resistance against multivalent forms of oppression, neo-Victorian texts display a fascinating proliferation of alternative family models, albeit overshadowed by the apparent recalcitrance of familial ideologies to the same historical changes neo-Victorianism reflects and seeks to promote within the cultural imaginary.

Author : Janice M. Allan,Christopher Pittard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107155855

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The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes by Janice M. Allan,Christopher Pittard Pdf

Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity.

Author : Anthony S. Wohl
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773594098

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The Eternal Slum by Anthony S. Wohl Pdf

Author : Gustav Doré
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782122661

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Dore's London by Gustav Doré Pdf

This beautifully presented edition reproduces all of Doré's London illustrations alongside carefully selected texts of the period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465414953

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London by Anonim Pdf

Now available in PDF format. Newly revised, updated, and redesigned for 2014. Experience the best of London with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London. This newly updated travel guide for London will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer, whether you are looking for the "real" London Bridge, planning to ride the London Eye, or want to take in the best of theater performances. Expert travel writers have fully revised this edition of DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London. -Themed itineraries help plan trips to London by length of stay or by interest. -Improved neighborhood walking maps now include restaurant locations by area. -Completely new hotel and restaurant listings now include DK Choice special recommendations. -New typography and fresh layout throughout. You'll still find DK's famous cutaway illustrations of major architectural and historic sights, museum floor plans, and 3-D aerial views of key districts to explore on foot, along with in-depth coverage of the city's history and culture. A city map is marked with sights from the guidebook and includes a street index, a London Underground map, and a chart showing the walking distances between major sights. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London truly shows you this city as no one else can.