Review Essay: Tales of the City

Asa Briggs , Victorian Cities ( London , 1963), 33—37.

Tony Bennett , The Birth of the Museum ( London , 1995 ).

Patrick Joyce , Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England ( Cambridge , 1994).

Richard Sennett , The Fall of Public Man ( New York , 1974 ); Alain Corbin , Time Desire and Horror: Towards a History of the Senses ( Cambridge , 1995).