Walking the Victorian Streets : : Women, Representation, and the City /

Walking the Victorian Streets : : Women, Representation, and the City / / Deborah Epstein Nord.

Literary traditions of urban description in the nineteenth century revolve around the figure of the stroller, a man who navigates and observes the city streets with impunity. Whether the stroller appears as fictional character, literary persona, or the nameless, omnipresent narrator of panoramic fic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Nord, Deborah Epstein,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1995
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.) :; 18 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century
  • PART ONE. STROLLER INTO NOVELIST
  • CHAPTER ONE. The City as Theater: London in the 1820s
  • CHAPTER TWO. Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering
  • CHAPTER THREE. "Vitiated Air": The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House
  • PART TWO. FALLEN WOMEN
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London Promenades
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Elbowed in the Streets: Exposure and Authority in Elizabeth Gaskell's Urban Fictions
  • PART THREE. NEW WOMEN
  • CHAPTER SIX. "Neither Pairs Nor Odd": Women, Urban Community, and Writing in the 188os
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Female Social Investigator: Matemalism, Feminism, and Women's Work
  • Conclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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