Originally published in two volumes, this work provides an understanding of the urban past and present. With its many-sided approach to the total phenomenon of the Victorian city, the work encompasses not only what took place, but what people thought about themselves as it happened. The books should appeal to a wide general audience, including a range of scholars - historians, literary and art historians, social scientists, and architects and town planners. Its focus is particularly in the study of the social and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of urbanization.

Featuring work by the most distinguished pioneers in the fields of urban history and Victorian studies, this set--originally published in 1973 by Routledge Kegan and Paul--is acknowledged as the seminal work on the urban past and present of the Victorian city. These volumes are now available either as a set or individually:
"The Victorian City, Volume 1"
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"The Victorian City, Volume 2"
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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