Walking the Victorian Streets : Women, Representation, and the City

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century -- PART ONE. STROLLER INTO NOVELIST -- CHAPTER ONE. The City as Theater: London in the 1820s -- CHAPTER TWO. Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering --...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century -- PART ONE. STROLLER INTO NOVELIST -- CHAPTER ONE. The City as Theater: London in the 1820s -- CHAPTER TWO. Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering -- CHAPTER THREE. "Vitiated Air": The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House -- PART TWO. FALLEN WOMEN -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London Promenades -- CHAPTER FIVE. Elbowed in the Streets: Exposure and Authority in Elizabeth Gaskell's Urban Fictions -- PART THREE. NEW WOMEN -- CHAPTER SIX. "Neither Pairs Nor Odd": Women, Urban Community, and Writing in the 188os -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Female Social Investigator: Matemalism, Feminism, and Women's Work -- Conclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil -- Bibliography -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung