Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
1 Introduction: “Scenes of Peace and Quietude,” or Victorian Fantasies of Suburban Utopia......Page 14
2 Dying of One’s Neighbors: Victorian Suburban Literature and Its Deconstruction of the Suburban Ideal......Page 37
3 Where There Is No Profligacy, Drunkeness or Crime: Representations of the Working Class and Origins of Suburban Anxieties......Page 53
4 Cracks in the Façade: Looking Behind the Cult of the Picturesque in Victorian Suburban Fiction......Page 72
5 Controlling “That Region of Irregular Bodies”: The Uninhabitable House and the Suburban Ghost Story......Page 88
6 Gothic Terrors: The Suburban Ruin and Sensation Fiction......Page 112
7 Sublime Suburbs......Page 133
8 Conclusion: The Death of the Suburban Ideal and the Rise of the “New” Suburban, 1880–1914......Page 153
Appendix......Page 172
Notes......Page 174
Bibliography......Page 180
Index......Page 188