TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whelan,Lara Baker
TI  - Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era
T2  - Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature
SN  - 9780415802178 (hbk.)
U1  - 823.8 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Middle class in literature
KW  - Suburbs in literature
KW  - Suburban life in literature
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Suburbs
KW  - Suburban life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-177) and index; Introduction: "scenes of peace and quietude," or Victorian fantasies of suburban utopia -- Dying of one's neighbors: Victorian suburban literature and its deconstruction of the suburban ideal -- Where there is no profligacy, drunkenness or crime: representations of the working class and origins of suburban anxieties -- Cracks in the façade: looking behind the cult of the picturesque in Victorian suburban fiction -- Controlling "that region of irregular bodies": the uninhabitable house and the suburban ghost story -- Gothic terrors: the suburban ruin and sensation fiction -- Sublime suburbs -- Conclusion: the death of the suburban ideal and the rise of the new suburban, 1880-1914
ER  -