Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era
By: by Lara Baker Whelan.
Series: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature -- 4
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415802178
Subjects: 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 century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "scenes of peace and quietude," or Victorian fantasies of suburban utopia; title: Dying of one's neighbors: Victorian suburban literature and its deconstruction of the suburban ideal; title: Where there is no profligacy, drunkenness or crime: representations of the working class and origins of suburban anxieties; title: Cracks in the façade: looking behind the cult of the picturesque in Victorian suburban fiction; title: Controlling "that region of irregular bodies": the uninhabitable house and the suburban ghost story; title: Gothic terrors: the suburban ruin and sensation fiction; title: Sublime suburbs; title: Conclusion: the death of the suburban ideal and the rise of the new suburban, 1880-1914.