Volume 21, Number 9 · May 30, 1974
Grandeur and Filth
By Frank Kermode
The Victorian City: Images and Realities
edited by H.J. Dyos, edited by Michael Wolff
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2 vols., 957 pp., $85.00
The Victorian Working Class: Selections from the Morning Chronicle Service (Portland, Oregon)
edited and introduced by P.E. Razzell, by R.W. Wainwright
Frank Cass (London), distributed by International Scholarly Book, 400 pp., $20.00
The Real Foundations: Literature and Social Change
by David Craig
Oxford University Press, 318 pp., $8.95
The Victorians by the Sea
edited by Howard Grey, edited by Graham Stuart
St. Martin's Press, 132 pp., $12.50
Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class
by Steven Marcus
Random House, 271 pp., $8.95
Millions of us still live in Victorian cities; 'the structures outlast the people who put them there,' as Messrs. Dyos and Wolff observe in the epilogue to their stunning book, 'and impose constraints on those who have to adapt them later to their own use.' Their contributors offer some striking images of these constrains. Take, for example, Sybil Baker's cool, minute, and frightful account of Victorian Belfast:
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