Imagining London, 1770-1900

Combining a unique overview of metropolitan visual culture with detailed textual analysis, this interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between the two cities which Londoners inhabited: the physical spaces of the metropolis, whose socially stratified and gendered topography was shaped by consumer culture and unregulated capitalism; and an imaginary ''London'', an ''Unreal City'' which reflected and influenced their understanding of, and actions in, the ''real'' environment.