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Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era book cover

1st Edition

Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era

By Lara Baker Whelan Copyright 2010
178 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge
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This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class values could be enforced. Whelan explores the dissonance created by the differences between the... Read more

List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: "Scenes of Peace and Quietude," or Victorian Fantasies of Suburban Utopia Chapter 2: Dying of One’s Neighbors: Victorian Suburban Literature and its Deconstruction of the Suburban Ideal Chapter 3: Where There is No Profligacy, Drunkenness or Crime: Representations of the Working Class and Origins of Suburban Anxieties Chapter 4: Cracks in the Façade: Looking Behind the Cult of the Picturesque in Victorian Suburban Fiction Chapter 5: Controlling "That Region of Irregular Bodies": The Uninhabitable House and the Suburban Ghost Story Chapter 6: Gothic Terrors: The Suburban Ruin and Sensation Fiction Chapter 7: Sublime Suburbs Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Death of the Suburban Ideal and the Rise of the "New" Suburban, 1880-1914 Appendix A Notes Bibliography Index

Biography

Lara Baker Whelan is Department Chair of English, Rhetoric and Writing at Berry College.

 

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