Walking the Victorian Streets : Women, Representation, and the City /

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Literary traditions of urban description in the nineteenth century revolve around the figure of the stroller, a man who navigates and observes the city streets with impunity. Whether the stroller appears as fictional character, literary persona, or the nameless, omnipresent narrator of panoramic fic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nord, Deborah Epstein, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Femmes et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siecle.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Villes dans la litteraturee.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Literaire thema's.
Stadscultuur.
Vrouwen.
Frau > Motiv
Stadt > Motiv
Literatur
Women and literature.
Social problems in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Prostitutes in literature.
Moral conditions in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Feminism and literature.
English fiction.
City and town life in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Mimêsis dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Prostituees dans la litterature.
Problemes sociaux dans la litterature.
Conditions morales dans la litterature.
Vie urbaine dans la litterature.
Marginalite dans la litterature.
Feminisme et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Feminism and literature > England > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Englisch.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century
  • Ch.1
  • The City as Theater: London in the 1820s
  • Ch.2
  • Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering
  • Ch.3
  • "Vitiated Air": The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House
  • Ch.4
  • The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London Promenades
  • Ch.5
  • Elbowed in the Streets: Exposure and Authority in Elizabeth Gaskell's Urban Fictions
  • Ch.6
  • "Neither Pairs Nor Odd": Women, Urban Community, and Writing in the 1880s
  • Ch.7
  • The Female Social Investigator: Maternalism, Feminism, and Women's Work
  • Conclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil.

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