TY - JOUR
AU - Gardner, John
AB - Journal of Victorian Culture 575 University Press will release it as a paperback, as it deserves a wider readership than its forbidding price tag currently allows. Nick Freeman Loughborough University N.Freeman@lboro.ac.uk q 2013, Nick Freeman http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2013.869920 REVIEW Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810–1840: Cockney Adventures, by Gregory Dart, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, xi þ 297 pp., illustrated, £55.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-107-024574 What is a Cockney? To have been born within the sound of Bow Bells is the most well-known qualification required. However, as Gregory Dart shows in his fascinating new book, Cockneys are people ‘with attitude’, who might labour through the week in old clothes but ‘transform themselves into dandies’ at the weekend. Cockneys, as Dart shows, have also been thought of as vulgar parochial upstarts who like new furniture, organized gardens and posh tearooms. This book examines, in particular, an understudied period, from 1820 to 1840, that links Romantic and Victorian cultures and overlaps the individual spheres that they are often separately studied in. It is an affectionate, interesting and generative study of Cockneyism, and how it engages with, among other things, architecture, art, city planning, fashion, literature, politics and suburban gardens. Dart’s achievement is that he extends 
TI - Within the Sound of Bow Bells
JF - Journal of Victorian Culture
DO - 10.1080/13555502.2013.869921
DA - 2013-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/within-the-sound-of-bow-bells-AYUL3ZkxMI
SP - 575
EP - 578
VL - 18
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -