Class, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Whelan, Lara Baker, 1966-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:	Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 4.
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Middle class in literature. Suburbs in literature. Suburban life in literature. Middle class > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Suburbs > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Suburban life > Great Britain > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

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.