1st Edition
Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City The Visiting Mode in Manchester, 1832-1914
By Martin Hewitt
Copyright 2020
122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study explores the ‘ecology of knowledge’ of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in which Victorians comprehended the nature of their urban society, through an exploration of the history of Victorian Manchester, and two specific case studies on the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell and the campaigns for educational extension which emerged out of the city. It argues... Read more
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: the ‘statistical moment’ and its limits
The Visiting Mode
The Cartographic Imaginary
Gaskell’s Manchester: the Visiting Mode in Fiction
The Case of Educational Reform
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Martin Hewitt is Professor of History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
"Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City is a fascinating and invaluable corrective to Joyce’s instrumentalism. Throughout, Hewitt emphasises the importance of lines of sight and visual impressions: hence the role of housing conditions as synecdoche for social situation." - Simon J Morgan, Leeds Beckett University
