Open houses : poverty, the novel, and the architectural idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain /

In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbreaks, political unrest, and government initiatives, commentators evinced a keen desire to document housing conditions and agitate for housing reform....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leckie, Barbara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Colección:Haney Foundation series.
Temas:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Working class > Dwellings > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Architecture, Domestic > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Housing > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
Dwellings in literature.
Poor in literature.
Architecture and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 19th century.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Travailleurs > Habitations > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Architecture domestique dans la littérature.
Habitations dans la littérature.
Pauvres dans la littérature.
Architecture et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Domestic, in literature
Dwellings in literature
English literature
Housing
Literature and society
Poor in literature
Working class > Dwellings
England
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "Let us look into the house"
  • A simple idea of architecture
  • The dark side of the interior
  • "The ruined house" : Charles Dickens's Bleak House
  • The mediating imagination : George Eliot's Middlemarch
  • The interpenetrating imagination : Henry James's The Princess Casamassima
  • Conclusion : The epistemology of the house.

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