Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era / Lara Baker Whelan.

• 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.

• In this study, Whelan demonstrates the way in which representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period€that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class values could be enforced. In particular, Whelan draws attention to the discourse of the suburb as a space of cultural contention in an attempt to illuminate a facet of class history that has often been ignored, overgeneralized, or misunderstood. 

Ämnesord

Förortsliv i litteraturen  (sao)

Viktoriansk litteratur  (sao)

Middle class in literature.  (LCSH)

Suburbs in literature.  (LCSH)

Suburban life in literature.  (LCSH)

English fiction  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Middle class  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Suburbs  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Suburban life  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

English fiction.  (fast)

Middle class.  (fast)

Middle class in literature.  (fast)

Suburban life.  (fast)

Suburban life in literature.  (fast)

Suburbs.  (fast)

Suburbs in literature.  (fast)

LITERARY CRITICISM  -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. (bisacsh)

Suburban life in literature  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

Great Britain.  (fast)

1800-talet  (sao)

1800-1899  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Electronic books. 

Klassifikation

PR878.M53 (LCC)

LIT (ämneskategori)

823.8093552 (DDC)