Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London /

Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London / / Lisa C. Robertson.

Explores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century metropolis and the texts that shaped themUncovers a series of innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London’s rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings together the writing of prominent authors...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Robertson, Lisa C.,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 11 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Housing Crisis: Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London
  • Part I: Structures of Authority: The Model Dwellings Movement
  • 2. ‘Out of its torpid misery’: Plotting Passivity in Margaret Harkness’s A City Girl
  • 3. ‘More making the best of it’: Living with Liberalism in Mary Ward’s Marcella
  • 4. Labour Leaders and Socialist Saviours: Individualism and Collectivism in Margaret Harkness’s George Eastmont, Wanderer
  • Part II: Chambers, Lodgings and Flats: Purpose-built Housing for Working Women
  • 5. Irritating Rules and Oppressive Offi cials: Convention and Innovation in Evelyn Sharp’s The Making of a Prig
  • 6. The Kailyard Comes to London: The Progressive Potential of Romantic Convention in Annie S. Swan’s A Victory Won
  • 7. Fugitive Living: Social Mobility and Domestic Space in Julia Frankau’s The Heart of a Child
  • Part III: ‘Thinking Men’ and Thinking Women: Gender, Sexuality and Settlement Housing
  • 8. ‘Vital friendship’: Sexual and Economic Ambivalence in Rhoda Broughton’s Dear Faustina
  • 9. ‘Twenty girls in my attic’: Spatial and Spiritual Conversion in L. T. Meade’s A Princess of the Gutter
  • Part IV: Homes for a New Era: London Housing Past and Present
  • 10. ‘To make a garden of the town’: The Nineteenth-Century Legacy of the Hampstead Garden Suburb
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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