TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robertson,Lisa C.
TI  - Home and identity in nineteenth-century literary London
T2  - Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
SN  - 9781474457910
U1  - 820.932421 23
KW  - English literature
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Home in literature
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
KW  - Dwellings
KW  - History
KW  - London (England)
KW  - In literature
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; 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 (1887); 3. 'More Making the Best of It': Living with Liberalism in Mary Ward's Marcella (1894); 4. Labour Leaders and Socialist Saviours: Individualism and Collectivism in Margaret Harkness's George Eastmont, Wanderer (1905); Part II: Chambers, Lodgings, and Flats: Purpose-built Housing for Working Women; 5. Irritating Rules and Oppressive Officials: Convention and Innovation in Evelyn Sharp's The Making of a Prig (1897); 6. The Kailyard Comes to London: The Progressive Potential of Romantic Convention in Annie S. Swan's A Victory Won (1895); 7. Fugitive Living: Social Mobility and Domestic Space in Julia Frankau's The Heart of a Child (1908); 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 (1897); 9. 'Twenty Girls in My Attic': Spatial and Spiritual Conversion in L.T. Meade's A Princess of the Gutter (1895); 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; Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 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 (1887)3. 'More Making the Best of It': Living with Liberalism in Mary Ward's Marcella (1894)4. Labour Leaders and Socialist Saviours: Individualism and Collectivism in Margaret Harkness's George Eastmont, Wanderer (1905) Part II: Chambers, Lodgings, and Flats: Purpose-built Housing for Working Women 5. Irritating Rules and Oppressive Officials: Convention and Innovation in Evelyn Sharp's The Making of a Prig (1897)6. The Kailyard Comes to London: The Progressive Potential of Romantic Convention in Annie S. Swan's A Victory Won (1895)7. Fugitive Living: Social Mobility and Domestic Space in Julia Frankau's The Heart of a Child (1908) 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 (1897)9. 'Twenty Girls in My Attic': Spatial and Spiritual Conversion in L.T. Meade's A Princess of the Gutter (1895) 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; Also issued in print format
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