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Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era / by Lara Baker Whelan.

By: Whelan, Lara Baker, 1966-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 4.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2010Description: 177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415802178 (hbk.); 0415802172 (hbk.).Subject(s): English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Middle class in literature | Suburbs in literature | Suburban life in literature | Middle class -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Suburbs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Suburban life -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 823.8
Contents:
Introduction: "scenes of peace and quietude," or Victorian fantasies of suburban utopia -- Dying of one's neighbors: Victorian suburban literature and its deconstruction of the suburban ideal -- Where there is no profligacy, drunkenness or crime: representations of the working class and origins of suburban anxieties -- Cracks in the façade: looking behind the cult of the picturesque in Victorian suburban fiction -- Controlling "that region of irregular bodies": the uninhabitable house and the suburban ghost story -- Gothic terrors: the suburban ruin and sensation fiction -- Sublime suburbs -- Conclusion: the death of the suburban ideal and the rise of the new suburban, 1880-1914.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-177) and index.

Introduction: "scenes of peace and quietude," or Victorian fantasies of suburban utopia -- Dying of one's neighbors: Victorian suburban literature and its deconstruction of the suburban ideal -- Where there is no profligacy, drunkenness or crime: representations of the working class and origins of suburban anxieties -- Cracks in the façade: looking behind the cult of the picturesque in Victorian suburban fiction -- Controlling "that region of irregular bodies": the uninhabitable house and the suburban ghost story -- Gothic terrors: the suburban ruin and sensation fiction -- Sublime suburbs -- Conclusion: the death of the suburban ideal and the rise of the new suburban, 1880-1914.

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