Author: G. S.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Doings in London; or, day and night scenes of the frauds, frolics, manners, and depravities of the Metropolis. The preface signed: G. S., i.e. George Smeeton. With thirty-three engravings ... from designs by Mr. R. Cruikshank. Seventh edition
Author: G. S.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Doings in London; Or, Day and Night Scenes of the Frauds, Frolics, Manners, and Depravities of the Metropolis
Author: George Smeeton
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Metropolitan Poor Vol 1
Author: John Marriott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040238998
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
This is a collection of primary materials on the metropolitan poor. It includes the writings of urban travellers and social reformers, and contains writings from the last five years of the 18th century, that is, from the time when the poor were first discovered as endemic to the nation.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040238998
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
This is a collection of primary materials on the metropolitan poor. It includes the writings of urban travellers and social reformers, and contains writings from the last five years of the 18th century, that is, from the time when the poor were first discovered as endemic to the nation.
Catalogue of the Library of Henry W. Poor ...
Author: Henry William Poor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Metropolis on the Styx
Author: David L. Pike
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501729462
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In Metropolis on the Styx,David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed previous book, Subterranean Cities, Pike details the emergence of a vertical city in the imagination of nineteenth-century Paris and London, a city overseen by hosts of devils and undermined by subterranean villains, a city whose ground level was replete with passages between above and below. Metropolis on the Styx brings together a rich variety of visual and written sources ranging from pulp mysteries and movie serials to the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and the novels of Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elinor Glyn to the broadsheets and ephemera of everyday urban life. From these materials, Pike conjures a working theory of modern underground space that explains why our notions about urban environments remain essentially nineteenth-century in character, even though cities themselves have since changed almost beyond recognition.Highly original in subject matter, methodology, and conclusions, Metropolis on the Styx synthesizes a number of critical approaches, periods of study, and disciplines in the analysis of a single category of space—the underground. Pike studies the built environments and the textual and visual ephemera (including little-known or unknown archival material) of Paris, London, and other cities in conjunction with canonical modern literature and art. This book integrates a rich visual component—photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined subterranean spaces—into the fabric of the argument.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501729462
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In Metropolis on the Styx,David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed previous book, Subterranean Cities, Pike details the emergence of a vertical city in the imagination of nineteenth-century Paris and London, a city overseen by hosts of devils and undermined by subterranean villains, a city whose ground level was replete with passages between above and below. Metropolis on the Styx brings together a rich variety of visual and written sources ranging from pulp mysteries and movie serials to the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and the novels of Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elinor Glyn to the broadsheets and ephemera of everyday urban life. From these materials, Pike conjures a working theory of modern underground space that explains why our notions about urban environments remain essentially nineteenth-century in character, even though cities themselves have since changed almost beyond recognition.Highly original in subject matter, methodology, and conclusions, Metropolis on the Styx synthesizes a number of critical approaches, periods of study, and disciplines in the analysis of a single category of space—the underground. Pike studies the built environments and the textual and visual ephemera (including little-known or unknown archival material) of Paris, London, and other cities in conjunction with canonical modern literature and art. This book integrates a rich visual component—photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined subterranean spaces—into the fabric of the argument.
Painting Out of the Ordinary
Author: David H. Solkin
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
With its plethora of illustrations, many of works published here for the first time, 'Painting Out of the Ordinary' will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in British art and society of the Romantic era.
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
With its plethora of illustrations, many of works published here for the first time, 'Painting Out of the Ordinary' will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in British art and society of the Romantic era.
Book Catalogue
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Catalogue of ... Collection of Valuable Choice and Important Books ...
Author: C. Welford
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Pursuit of Pleasure
Author: Jane Rendell
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567405362
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Pursuit of Pleasure presents the figures of the rambler and the cyprian, the Eighteenth Century precursors to the Parisian flGneur and prostitute. The urban spaces traced by these figures were the clubs, sporting venues, operas, assembly rooms, streets and arcades of central London.Drawing on critical theory, geography and philosophy, The Pursuit of Pleasure extends and critiques the discipline of architectural history from a feminist perspective. The gendering of public space is considered to be a complex and shifting series of moves and looks between men and women, constructed and represented through spatial and social relations of consumption, display and exchange.Illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings, The Pursuit of Pleasure is an extraordinarily rich analysis of the gendered issues of public space at the birth of the modern metropolis.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567405362
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Pursuit of Pleasure presents the figures of the rambler and the cyprian, the Eighteenth Century precursors to the Parisian flGneur and prostitute. The urban spaces traced by these figures were the clubs, sporting venues, operas, assembly rooms, streets and arcades of central London.Drawing on critical theory, geography and philosophy, The Pursuit of Pleasure extends and critiques the discipline of architectural history from a feminist perspective. The gendering of public space is considered to be a complex and shifting series of moves and looks between men and women, constructed and represented through spatial and social relations of consumption, display and exchange.Illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings, The Pursuit of Pleasure is an extraordinarily rich analysis of the gendered issues of public space at the birth of the modern metropolis.
Unknown London Vol 3
Author: John Marriott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040246311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This is an anthology of literature and graphic illustration that effectively defined a formative moment in the history of London.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040246311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This is an anthology of literature and graphic illustration that effectively defined a formative moment in the history of London.