Architecture and Social Reform in Victorian London
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1994
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-3914-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-3914-0 (ISBN)
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This text examines the architecture of the newly-emergent institutions of reform and philanthropy in late Victorian London. The author analyzes the relationship between the intentions of the founders and the architectural expression of their buildings.
This book examines the architecture of the newly-emergent institutions of reform and philanthropy in late Victorian London that were intended to bring the redemptive values of English middle-class culture to the working-classes. Amidst the sea of squalid brick tenements and working-class two-up, two-down houses of late 19th-century London, new building types arose, large in scale and bold in their message: the triple-storied Queen Anne board schools, the mock Elizabethan settlement houses, an Arts and Crafts free public art gallery replete with mystic symbolism and, as first conceived, a neo-Byzantine pleasure-palace for the working-classes. Weiner explains the social relations which informed the production and use of these buildings, analyzing the relationship between the intentions of the founders and the architectural expression of their buildings, which drew upon contemporary myths of a peaceful and harmonious past.
This book examines the architecture of the newly-emergent institutions of reform and philanthropy in late Victorian London that were intended to bring the redemptive values of English middle-class culture to the working-classes. Amidst the sea of squalid brick tenements and working-class two-up, two-down houses of late 19th-century London, new building types arose, large in scale and bold in their message: the triple-storied Queen Anne board schools, the mock Elizabethan settlement houses, an Arts and Crafts free public art gallery replete with mystic symbolism and, as first conceived, a neo-Byzantine pleasure-palace for the working-classes. Weiner explains the social relations which informed the production and use of these buildings, analyzing the relationship between the intentions of the founders and the architectural expression of their buildings, which drew upon contemporary myths of a peaceful and harmonious past.
London, liberals and social reform; the discovery of working-class childhood; the public face of the London Board School; inside the "decorated shed"; the Board School and the movement for national efficiency - the "regeneration" of the working classes; "the best for the lowest" - the settlement movement; the people's palace - Walter Besant and the slum pastoral; "Robert Elsmere" - Mrs Ward and the new theology.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.7.1994 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 100 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-3914-2 / 0719039142 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-3914-0 / 9780719039140 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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