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and the central role of art and literature in the development of his critical vision

A critical assumption of the book is that while it is necessary and inevitable that historians write out of the history of their own times

Shakespeare and Dickens

Aminda Smith

Outcast London keyword-reynolds and the central role ofIn the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of outcast London. Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and economic development. Outcast London is a fascinating and important study of the problem at the center of the crisis: the casual poor and their fraught relations