Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era /
Whelan, Lara Baker, 1966-
Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era / by Lara Baker Whelan. - New York : Routledge, 2010. - 177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 4 . - Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 4. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-173) 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.
9780415802178 (hardback) 0415802172 (hardback)
2009024921
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Middle class in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Suburban life in literature.
Middle class--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Suburbs--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Suburban life--History--Great Britain--19th century.
PR878.M53 / W47 2010
Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era / by Lara Baker Whelan. - New York : Routledge, 2010. - 177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 4 . - Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 4. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-173) 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.
9780415802178 (hardback) 0415802172 (hardback)
2009024921
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Middle class in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Suburban life in literature.
Middle class--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Suburbs--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Suburban life--History--Great Britain--19th century.
PR878.M53 / W47 2010