Home and identity in nineteenth-century literary London / Lisa C. Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Lisa C., author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Home in literature.

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.

Dwellings--England--London--History--19th century.

Dwellings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-9081-6

1-4744-5790-8

OCLC:

1306537940