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Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 296 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 235x156x25 mm, 20 b-w illus.
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Mar-2019
  • Leidėjas: Yale University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0300179332
  • ISBN-13: 9780300179330
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 296 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 235x156x25 mm, 20 b-w illus.
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Mar-2019
  • Leidėjas: Yale University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0300179332
  • ISBN-13: 9780300179330
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A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women


A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women

Literature has, from the start of the nineteenth century, cast the suburbs as dull, vulgar, and unimaginative margins where, by definition, nothing important takes place. Sarah Bilston argues that such attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural authority of the emerging middle class and to reinforce patriarchy by trivializing women’s work. Resisting these stereotypes, Bilston reveals that suburban life offered ambitious women, especially writers, access to supportive communities and opportunities for literary and artistic experimentation as well as professional advancement. Bilston interprets both familiar figures (sensation novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon) and less well-known writers (including interior design journalist Jane Ellen Panton and garden writer Jane Loudon) to reveal how women and society at large navigated a fast-growing, rapidly changing landscape. Far from being a cultural dead end, the new suburbs promised women access to the exciting opportunities of modernity.

Recenzijos

What Sarah Bilstons book does not promise, but delivers, is actually a female history of the suburbs in Victorian literature and culture Laurent Bury, Cercles

Selected for Choice's 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles List  

The Promise of the Suburbs reveals that, far from enforcing oppressive conformity, the suburbs offered diverse social interactions, opportunities for female professionalism, and new ideas about domestic space and urban modernity. This impressive book is a must-read for anyone interested in mid-Victorian culture.Talia Schaffer, Queens College, CUNY, and Graduate Center, CUNY

No other book carries the analysis of suburban writing and writing about suburbia as far or as fascinatingly as Bilston has achieved here. I learned a lot from reading this book.Annette Federico, James Madison University

"Sarah Bilstons book is a revelation, one that overturns conventional assumptions of suburbias sterility to reveal a site of diversity, sociability, and widened opportunities for women. It is essential reading."Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University

"In this compelling account of Victorian suburbia, Bilston completely overturns our preconceptions.  The suburbs, she demonstrates, were not dull and stultifying, but a site of self-invention, social experimentation, and creativity."Kate Flint, University of Southern California

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The "Horror" of Suburbia 1(19)
1 John Claudius Loudon and the New Suburban Landscape
20(17)
2 Setting Suburban Stereotypes: 1820s---1850s
37(16)
3 Plotting the Suburbs: Popular Fiction and Common Knowledge, 1850s--1870s
53(21)
4 "Art at Home": Women and the Suburban Interior
74(40)
5 Women and the Suburban Garden
114(25)
6 Suburban Opportunity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Fiction
139(39)
7 "The Quintessence of the Suburban": Jane Ellen Panton and Julia Frankau Speak of Suburbia
178(31)
Conclusions: Stepping off the Threshold 209(10)
Notes 219(32)
Bibliography 251(16)
Index 267
Sarah Bilston is professor of literature at Trinity College. She is the author of The Awkward Age in Womens Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 and two novels, Bed Rest and Sleepless Nights.