| Details | | Publication Date: | 1994-04-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Publisher's Note Filled with lively essays and a glossary of obscure terms, this unique reference--organized by subject--is a practical and entertaining compendium of information and insight on this time of debtor prisons, bedlam, and that wonderful disease of sense and sensibility, "putrid fever". Illustrations.
Industry Reviews "American readers, for whom the book was originally (in 1994) designed, will benefit more than British. But Pool adds invaluably to the 'solidity of specification' (as Henry James called it), that assumed but undescribed socio-historical backdrop, which every year recedes further from us as Victorian fiction becomes more remotely Victorian." Fallows
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