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Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era

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Routledge
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English

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature -- 4

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8093552
Library of Congress
PR878.M53 W47 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23606368M
Internet Archive
classculturesubu00whel
ISBN 10
0415802172
ISBN 13
9780415802178
LCCN
2009024921
Library Thing
9684940
Goodreads
6668036

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