| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era/ by Lara Baker Whelan. |
| Author: |
Whelan, Lara Baker, |
| Published: |
New York :Routledge, : 2010., |
| Description: |
177 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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 faðcade: 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. |
| Subject: |
English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203864029 |
| ISBN: |
9780203864029 (e-book : PDF) |