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Home and identity in nineteenth-century literary London /
This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Housing Crisis: Home andIdentity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London
- Part I: Structures of Authority: The Model Dwellings Movement
- 2. 'Out of its torpid misery': Plotting Passivity in Margaret Harkness's A City Girl
- 3. 'More making the best of it': Living with Liberalism in Mary Ward's Marcella
- 4. Labour Leaders and Socialist Saviours: Individualism and Collectivism in Margaret Harkness's George Eastmont, Wanderer
- Part II: Chambers, Lodgings and Flats: Purpose-built Housing for Working Women
- 5. Irritating Rules and Oppressive Officials: Convention and Innovation in Evelyn Sharp's The Making of a Prig
- 6. The Kailyard Comes to London: The Progressive Potential of Romantic Convention in Annie S. Swan's A Victory Won
- 7. Fugitive Living: Social Mobility and Domestic Space in Julia Frankau's The Heart of a Child
- Part III: 'Thinking Men' and Thinking Women: Gender, Sexuality and Settlement Housing
- 8. 'Vital friendship': Sexual and Economic Ambivalence in Rhoda Broughton's Dear Faustina
- 9. 'Twenty girls in my attic': Spatial and Spiritual Conversion in L. T. Meade's A Princess of the Gutter
- Part IV: Homes for a New Era: London Housing Past and Present
- 10. 'To make a garden of the town': The Nineteenth-Century Legacy ofthe Hampstead Garden Suburb
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index