Victorian Babylon by Lynda Nead

Victorian Babylon by Lynda Nead

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Zusammenfassung

In this innovative look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a fresh account of modernity and metropolitan life. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern city in the 1860s and the emergence of new ways of producing and consuming visual culture.

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Victorian Babylon by Lynda Nead

In this innovative look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a fresh account of modernity and metropolitan life. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern city in the 1860s and the emergence of new ways of producing and consuming visual culture.
“[This] genuinely interdisciplinary study. . makes a major contribution to our knowledge of the lived experience of the Victorian city.”—Timothy Barringer, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

“Provocative and brilliant.”—Susan P. Casteras, Nineteenth Century Studies

“Splendid. . . . [Nead] brings an art historian’s fine sense of visual detail; indeed, one of the most striking features of the book is the wonderful illustrative material.”—John Marriott, History Today
Lynda Nead teaches history of art at Birkbeck College, University of London.


SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780300107708
ISBN 10 0300107706
Titel Victorian Babylon
Autor Lynda Nead
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Yale University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2005-06-11
Seitenanzahl 264
Hinweis auf dem Einband Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.