Contents:
Volume One Preface Acknowledgements
I Past and Present 1. The Urbanizing World
Eric E. Lampard 2. Voices from Within
Paul Thompson II Numbers of People 3. The Human Aggregate
Asa Briggs 4. The Contagion of Numbers
J.A. Banks 5. Comers and Goers
Raphael Samuel 6. Pubs
Brian Harrison The Literature of the Streets
Victor E. Neuburg 8. The Metropolis of the Stage
Michael R. Booth III Shapes on the Ground 9. The Camera's Eye
G.H. Martin and
David Francis 10. The Face of the Industrial City
G.F. Chadwick 11. Reading the Illegible
Steven Marcus 12. The Power of the Railway
Jack Simmons 13. London, the Artifact
John Summerson 14. House upon House
Donald J. Olson 15. Slums and Suburbs
H.J. Dyos and
D.A. Reeder IV A Change of Accent 16. Another Part of the Island
G.F.A. Best 17. Metropolitan Types
Lynn Lees Volume Two V Ideas in the Air 18. The Awful Sublimity of the Victorian City
Nicholas Taylor 19. Victorian Artists and the Urban Mileu
E.D.H. Johnson 20. The Frightened Poets
G. Robert Strange 21. From 'Know-not-Where' to 'Nowhere'
George Levine 22. The Novel between City and Country
U.C. Knoepflmacher 23. Dickens and London
Philip Collins 24. Pictures from the Magazines
Michael Wolff and
Celina Fox VI A Body of Troubles 25. Fact and Fiction in the East End
P.J. Keating 26. Unfit for Human Habitation
Anthony S. Wohl 27. Disease, Debility and Death
George Rosen 28. Training Urban Man
Richard L. Schoenwald 29. Prostitution and the Paterfamilias
Eric Trudgill 30. The Culture of Poverty
Gertrude Himmelfarb VII A New Earth 31. Literary Voices of an Industrial Town
Martha Vicinus 32. Areas of Urban Politics
Derek Fraser 33. Orange and Green
Sybil E. Baker 34. Challenge to the Church
David E. H. Mole 35. Catholic Faith of the Irish Slums
Sheridan Gilley 36. Feelings and Festivals
John Kent 37. The Way Out
Stanley Pierson VIII Epilogue The Way We Live Now
H.J. Dyos and
Michael Wolff Notes on Contributors Index