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Walking the Victorian Streets : Women, Representation, and the City /
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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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.