Racing the Street
Racing the Street

Author: Robert J. Topinka

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0520343611

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Racing the Street traces the history of how race was used as a technology for gathering, assembling, and networking the early cosmopolitan city. Drawing on an archive that ranges from engineering blueprints and parliamentary committee reports to sensationalistic pamphlets and periodical press accounts, Robert J. Topinka conducts an original genealogy of the nineteenth-century London street, demonstrating how race as a technology gathers, sorts, and assembles the teeming particularities of the street into a manageable network. This interdisciplinary study offers a novel approach to the intersections of race, rhetoric, media, technology, and urban government.

William Powell Frith
William Powell Frith

Author: William Powell Frith

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0300121903

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William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd, and they are now icons of their age. Frith’s popularity in his lifetime was unprecedented; on six separate occasions special railings had to be built at the Royal Academy to protect his paintings from an admiring public. Derby Day and The Railway Station are nearly as well known today as a century ago, yet the artist who painted them is now neglected. This book explores Frith's place in the development of Victorian painting: the impact of his unconventional private life on his work, his relationships with Hogarth and Dickens, his influence on popular illustration, the place of costume in his paintings, his female models, his painting materials and practice, and much more. The book makes an important contribution to the literature on art in the Victorian era and to our understanding of the nineteenth century.

The Army in Victorian Society
The Army in Victorian Society

Author: G. Harries-Jenkins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1135032017

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Although in Victorian society the Army was the aristocratic backbone of England, it was persistently engaged in fighting Colonial Wars.