Descript |
vii, 312 p. : ill (some col.) ; 28 cm. |
Contents |
Introduction. City of gold and mud : painting Victorian London -- Looking at London : the public sphere and the individual -- "The whirl and rush of harmony" : representing the London crowd -- Imperial illumination : William Holman Hunt's London Bridge and royal spectacle in the modern city -- "More than an empty show"? : William Logsdail's Ninth of November and civic pageantry -- "As black and sweep-like as I could desire" : dirt, blackness, and the representation of street types -- "A defiant parade of rags" : images of working-class children -- Horror embodied : Luke Fildes's Casual ward -- "Latent Edens" : the urban pastoral -- "A dim world, where monsters dwell" : the spatial time of the Sydenham Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park. |
ISBN |
9780300174465 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0300174462 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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