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  1. Walking the Victorian streets
    women, representation, and the city
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y

    Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century -- Ch.1 -- The City as Theater: London in the 1820s -- Ch.2 -- Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering -- Ch.3 -- "Vitiated Air": The Polluted City and Female... more

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    Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century -- Ch.1 -- The City as Theater: London in the 1820s -- Ch.2 -- Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering -- Ch.3 -- "Vitiated Air": The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House -- Ch.4 -- The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London Promenades -- Ch.5 -- Elbowed in the Streets: Exposure and Authority in Elizabeth Gaskell's Urban Fictions -- Ch.6 -- "Neither Pairs Nor Odd": Women, Urban Community, and Writing in the 1880s -- Ch.7 -- The Female Social Investigator: Maternalism, Feminism, and Women's Work -- Conclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0801423929; 0801482917; 1501729233; 9780801423925; 9780801482915; 9781501729232
    Subjects: Feminism and literature; Marginality, Social, in literature; City and town life in literature; Moral conditions in literature; Social problems in literature; Prostitutes in literature; Sex role in literature; Mimesis in literature; English fiction; Women and literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 270 pages), illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index

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