The promise of the suburbs : a Victorian history in literature and culture / Sarah Bilston.
The promise of the suburbs : a Victorian history in literature and culture / Sarah Bilston.
The promise of the suburbs : a Victorian history in literature and culture / Sarah Bilston.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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G 2020/1705
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English
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Physical content
viii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction. The "Horror" of Suburbia -- John Claudius Loudon and the New Suburban Landscape -- Setting Suburban Stereotypes: 1820s-1850s -- Plotting the Suburbs: Popular Fiction and Common Knowledge, 1850s-1870s -- "Art at Home": Women and the Suburban Interior -- Women and the Suburban Garden --...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women. From the earliest decades of the nineteenth century, the suburbs were maligned by the aristocratic elite as dull zones of low cultural ambition and vulgarity, as well as generally female spaces isolated from the consequ...
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The promise of the suburbs : a Victorian history in literature and culture / Sarah Bilston.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index.
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©2019
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G 2020/1705
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74VKaDrVReXM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaDrVReXM
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ISBN
9780300179330
DDC
307.760941
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991024298608102626
