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John Tallis’s London Street Views

John Tallis’s London Street Views AbstractThis paper offers a close examination of John Tallis’s London Street Views, a series of eighty-eight street directories featuring maps and engraved topographical views of major London thoroughfares published between 1838 and 1840. One in a popular genre of London guidebooks and street directories published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, London Street Views depicts a growing and industrializing city and reflects a desire among Tallis and his contemporaries to capture London and make it somehow comprehensible. In understanding London Street Views within the cultural production of urban spaces, this paper explores the significance of urban streetscapes as highly contested sites of identity formation in early Victorian London, investigates the role that Tallis — bookseller, publisher, and Londoner — played in imagining and representing the city, and positions London Street Views within a particular urban space defined by advertising and other printed media in the early Victorian period. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present Taylor & Francis

John Tallis’s London Street Views

John Tallis’s London Street Views


Abstract

AbstractThis paper offers a close examination of John Tallis’s London Street Views, a series of eighty-eight street directories featuring maps and engraved topographical views of major London thoroughfares published between 1838 and 1840. One in a popular genre of London guidebooks and street directories published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, London Street Views depicts a growing and industrializing city and reflects a desire among Tallis and his contemporaries to capture London and make it somehow comprehensible. In understanding London Street Views within the cultural production of urban spaces, this paper explores the significance of urban streetscapes as highly contested sites of identity formation in early Victorian London, investigates the role that Tallis — bookseller, publisher, and Londoner — played in imagining and representing the city, and positions London Street Views within a particular urban space defined by advertising and other printed media in the early Victorian period.

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© The London Journal Trust 2012
ISSN
1749-6322
eISSN
0305-8034
DOI
10.1179/174963212X13451695770476
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Abstract

AbstractThis paper offers a close examination of John Tallis’s London Street Views, a series of eighty-eight street directories featuring maps and engraved topographical views of major London thoroughfares published between 1838 and 1840. One in a popular genre of London guidebooks and street directories published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, London Street Views depicts a growing and industrializing city and reflects a desire among Tallis and his contemporaries to capture London and make it somehow comprehensible. In understanding London Street Views within the cultural production of urban spaces, this paper explores the significance of urban streetscapes as highly contested sites of identity formation in early Victorian London, investigates the role that Tallis — bookseller, publisher, and Londoner — played in imagining and representing the city, and positions London Street Views within a particular urban space defined by advertising and other printed media in the early Victorian period.

Journal

The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and PresentTaylor & Francis

Published: Nov 1, 2012

Keywords: Architecture; Guidebooks; John Tallis; London Street Views; Shopping

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