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Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion  \n‘Our Feverish Contact’Allan Conrad Christensen  \n2. Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politcs of Literacy  \nJean Fernandez  \n3. Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women’s Poetry  \nF. Elizabeth Gray  \n4. Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era  \nLara Baker Whelan  \nClass, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era  \nLara Baker Whelan  \nNew York London  \nFirst published 2010 by Routledge  \n270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016  \nSimultaneously published in the UK by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.  \nTo purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s  \ncollection of thousands of [eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).  \n© 2010 Taylor & Francis  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nTrademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Whelan, Lara Baker, 1966–  \nClass, culture and suburban anxieties in the Victorian era / by Lara Baker Whelan.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 4) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \n1. English fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Middle class in literature. 3. Suburbs in literature. 4. Suburban life in literature. 5. Middle class—Great Britain—History—19th century. 6. Suburbs—Great Britain—History—19th century. 7. Suburban life—Great Britain—History—19th century. I. Title.  \nPR878 .M53W47 2009 823'.8093552—dc22 2009024921  \nISBN 0-203-86402-6 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN10: 0-415-80217-2 (hbk)  \nISBN10: 0-203-86402-6 (ebk)  \nISBN13: 978-0-415-80217-8 (hbk)  \nISBN13: 978-0-203-86402-9 (ebk)  \nTo Paul, who was there in the beginning, and to John Raymond and Bonnie Victoria, who helped see it to the end.  \nContents  \nList of Figures ix  \nAcknowledgments xi  \n1 Introduction: “Scenes of Peace and Quietude,” or Victorian Fantasies of Suburban Utopia 1  \n2 Dying of One’s Neighbors: Victorian Suburban Literature and Its Deconstruction of the Suburban Ideal 24  \n3 Where There Is No Profligacy, Drunkenness or Crime: Representations of the Working Class and Origins of Suburban Anxieties 40  \n4 Cracks in the Façade: Looking Behind the Cult of the  \nPicturesque in Victorian Suburban Fiction 59  \n5 Controlling “That Region of Irregular Bodies”: The  \nUninhabitable House and the Suburban Ghost Story 75  \n6 Gothic Terrors: The Suburban Ruin and Sensation Fiction 99  \n7 Sublime Suburbs 120  \n8 Conclusion: The Death of the Suburban Ideal and the Rise of  \nthe “New” Suburban, 1880–1914 140  \nAppendix 159  \nNotes 161  \nBibliography 167  \nIndex 175  \nFigures  \n1.1 Nineteenth-century London expansion. 4  \n1.2 Ealing, 1881: an example of an ideal suburb. 15  \n2.1 The vision of the City from which suburbanites  \nwanted to escape. 25  \n2.2 The crowds in Regent’s Park, bordering the northern  \nsuburbs. 36  \n2.3 The crowds on Hampstead Heath. 37  \n3.1 Umbrella mender and ginger-beer sellers on Clapham Common, 1877. 44  \n6.1 Gustave Doré’s view of London from a train, 1872. 109 A.1 Outline Map of Greater London. 159","cbCaighr8FAk0Fbp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaighr8FAk0Fbp","pdf",1458076,190,"English","# Contents\n## 1 Introduction: “Scenes of Peace and Quietude,” or Victorian Fantasies of Suburban Utopia\n## 2 Dying of One’s Neighbors: Victorian Suburban Literature and Its Deconstruction of the Suburban Ideal\n## 3 Where There Is No Profligacy, Drunkenness or Crime: Representations of the Working Class and Origins of Suburban Anxieties\n## 4 Cracks in the Façade: Looking Behind the Cult of the Picturesque in Victorian Suburban Fiction\n## 5 Controlling “That Region of Irregular Bodies”: The Uninhabitable House and the Suburban Ghost Story\n## 6 Gothic Terrors: The Suburban Ruin and Sensation Fiction\n## 7 Sublime Suburbs\n## 8 Conclusion: The Death of the Suburban Ideal and the Rise of the “New” Suburban, 1880–1914\n## Appendix\n## Notes\n## Bibliography\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the book?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how Victorian suburban literature and related cultural narratives develop and deconstruct the suburban ideal through class, culture, and recurring anxieties.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book treat working-class representation?\",\"answer\":\"It analyzes depictions of the working class and connects them to the origins of suburban anxieties, including portrayals tied to moral and social disorder.\"},{\"question\":\"What time period does the conclusion cover?\",\"answer\":\"The conclusion addresses the death of the suburban ideal and the rise of a “new” suburban model from 1880 to 1914.\"}]","Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era | PDF",479]