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Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Autor Lara Baker Whelan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2014
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 suburban ideal and suburban realities, recognizing the persistence of that ideal in the face of abundant evidence that it was hardly ever realized. She discusses evidence from primary and secondary sources about perceptions and realities of suburban living, showing what it meant to live in a "real" Victorian suburb. The book also demonstrates how the suburban ideal (with its elements of privacy, cleanliness, rus in urbe, and respectability), in its relation to culturally embedded ideas about the Beautiful and Picturesque, gained such a strong foothold in the Victorian middle class that contemplating its failure caused intense anxiety. Whelan goes on to trace the ways in which this anxiety is represented in literature.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138843561
ISBN-10: 1138843563
Pagini: 178
Ilustrații: 11 black & white illustrations, 11 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

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

Descriere

In this study, Whelan demonstrates the way in which representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class values could be enforced. In particular, Whelan draws attention to the discourse of the suburb as a space of cultural contention in an attempt to illuminate a facet of class history that has often been ignored, overgeneralized, or misunderstood. At the same time, she recontextualizes Victorian fiction for modern readers in light of middle-class suburban anxieties.