Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era
Author | : Lara Baker Whelan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135177198 |
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In this study, Whelan demonstrates the way in which representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period€that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class values could be enforced. In particular, Whelan draws attention to the discourse of the suburb as a space of cultural contention in an attempt to illuminate a facet of class history that has often been ignored, overgeneralized, or misunderstood. At the same time, €she rec.