The promise of the suburbs : a Victorian history in literature and culture /

A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women. From the earliest decades of the nineteenth century, the suburbs were maligned by the aristocratic elite as dull zones of low cultural ambition and vulgarity, as well as...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bilston, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Series:Yale scholarship online
Subjects:
1800-1899
Suburban life > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women authors, English > 19th century.
Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Vie de la banlieue > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Écrivaines anglaises > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Suburban life.
Women authors, English.
Women > Social conditions.
Great Britain.
Grossbritannien.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The "Horror" of Suburbia
  • John Claudius Loudon and the New Suburban Landscape
  • Setting Suburban Stereotypes: 1820s-1850s
  • Plotting the Suburbs: Popular Fiction and Common Knowledge, 1850s-1870s
  • "Art at Home": Women and the Suburban Interior
  • Women and the Suburban Garden
  • Suburban Opportunity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Fiction
  • "The Quintessence of the Suburban": Jane Ellen Panton and Julia Frankau Speak of Suburbia
  • Conclusions. Stepping off the Threshold.

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