Open Houses : : Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain / / Barbara Leckie.
In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbreaks, political unrest, and government initiatives, commentators evinced a keen desire to document housing conditions and agitate for housing reform....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 28 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. “Let Us Look Into the House”
- Chapter 1. A Simple Idea of Architecture
- Chapter 2. The Dark Side of the Interior
- Chapter 3. “The Ruined House”: Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
- Chapter 4. The Mediating Imagination: George Eliot’s Middlemarch
- Chapter 5. The Interpenetrating Imagination: Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima
- Conclusion. The Epistemology of the House
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments