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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Fiction & Biography     First Chapter Excerpts     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Flanders, Judith.     Subjects     Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Homes and haunts -- England.     London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.     London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.     London (England) -- In literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Flanders, Judith.       by title:      The Victorian city :...         MARC Display

The Victorian city : everyday life in Dickens' London / Judith Flanders. by Flanders, Judith. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2014. Subjects Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Homes and haunts -- England.   London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.   London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.   London (England) -- In literature. Summary:  "From the critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London.The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology--railways, street-lighting, and sewers--transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again. "-- Notes:  Previously published: London : Atlantic Books, 2012. Edition:  First U.S. edition. Description:  xxiii, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. ISBN:  9781250040213 (hardback) 1250040213 (hardback)   Copy/Holding information Location Status Collection Call No.   Main - Anderson Public Library Checked In Adult Non-Fiction 942.1 F Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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