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This study offers a survey of the changing depiction of the denizens of London's streets-mechanic preachers, prostitutes, milkmaids, tinkers, beggars, and all manner of hawkers-as these were represented in "Cries" produced between 1580 and 1900. It draws on the history of art, literature, and society to analyse the meaning of the "Cries" in the culture of London over three centuries, and studies "Crie"s as a genre with its own self-sustaining life - the life of art - but also reads the genre in a social and cultural historical context.
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Images of the Outcast, Sean Shesgreen
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- Images of the Outcast
- Subtitle
- The Urban Poor in the Cries of London from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sean Shesgreen
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 248
- ISBN10
- 0719062934
- ISBN13
- 9780719062933
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, History, Art, Sociology, England, 19th century, Europe, Great Britain, Art History & Criticism, History of Art, History of Europe, London, 18th century, 17th century, Social History
- Description
- This study offers a survey of the changing depiction of the denizens of London's streets-mechanic preachers, prostitutes, milkmaids, tinkers, beggars, and all manner of hawkers-as these were represented in "Cries" produced between 1580 and 1900. It draws on the history of art, literature, and society to analyse the meaning of the "Cries" in the culture of London over three centuries, and studies "Crie"s as a genre with its own self-sustaining life - the life of art - but also reads the genre in a social and cultural historical context.