Review Essay: Tales of the City

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Roy Porter , London: A Social History (London, 1994 ).

Ibid., 389.

Stephen Inwood , A History of London (London, 2000).

David Kynaston, The City of London: A World of Its Own, 1815-90 v.1 (Pimlico, 1995); Golden Years, 1890-1914 v. 2; The City of London: Illusions of Gold, 1914-45 v. 3 , (Pimlico, 2000); The City of London: Club No More, 1945-2000 v. 4 (Pimlico, 2002).

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Gareth Steadman Jones , Outcast London : A Study in the Relationship between Classes in Victorian Society ( Oxford, UK, 1971).

David Green , From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870 (Aldershot, UK, 1995).

Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London (London, Virago, 1992); Lynda Nead, Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-century London (New Haven, CT, 2000).