Lara Baker Whelan

Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415802178
• ISBN-10: 0415802172
• Artikelnr.: 27382033

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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