Lynda Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organised city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consump

"In this innovative look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a fresh account of modernity and metropolitan life. Taking a highly interdisciplinary a

A study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural, political, and cultural life. The book studie

From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blend

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history and art history, The Victorian World offers a swee