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The promise of the suburbs : a Victorian history in literature and culture / Sarah Bilston.
LIBRA HT352.G7 B55 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bilston, Sarah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suburban life--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Suburban life.
- Women authors, English--19th century.
- Women authors, English.
- Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
- Women.
- Suburbs in literature.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- 1 John Claudius Loudon and the New Suburban Landscape p. 20
- 2 Setting Suburban Stereotypes: 1820S-185OS p. 37
- 3 Plotting the Suburbs: Popular Fiction and Common Knowledge, 1850s-1870s p. 53
- 4 "An at Home": Women and the Suburban Interior p. 74
- 5 Women and the Suburban Garden p. 114
- 6 Suburban Opportunity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Fiction p. 139
- 7 "The Quintessence of the Suburban": Jane Ellen Panton and Julia Frankau Speak of Suburbia p. 178.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300179330
- 0300179332
- OCLC:
- 1046461606
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