Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City

Deborah Epstein Nord

Published by Cornell University Press 1995

Walking the Victorian Streets

Women, Representation, and the City

Deborah Epstein Nord

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501729232

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About this book

In Walking the Victorian Streets, Deborah Epstein Nord explores the way in which the female figure is used as a marker for social suffering, poverty, and contagion in texts by De Quincey, Lamb, Pierce Egan, and Dickens.

Author / Editor information

Deborah Epstein Nord is Professor of English at Princeton University where she also teaches in the Program in Women's Studies. She is also the author of The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (Cornell Paperbacks).

Reviews

Linda Dowling, author of Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford:

A historically informed account of the sexual politics of urban spectatorship in nineteenth-century England. Nord's shrewd analysis and sensitive readings, coupled with the similarity between late-Victorian middle-class women's anxieties about family and vocation and those of contemporary Western women, will earn the book an especially enthusiastic response. The subject is intriguing and attractively handled; Walking the Victorian Streets is pleasurable and informative reading.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. STROLLER INTO NOVELIST
CHAPTER ONE. The City as Theater: London in the 1820s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
CHAPTER TWO. Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
CHAPTER THREE. "Vitiated Air": The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
PART TWO. FALLEN WOMEN
CHAPTER FOUR. The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London Promenades Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
CHAPTER FIVE. Elbowed in the Streets: Exposure and Authority in Elizabeth Gaskell's Urban Fictions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
PART THREE. NEW WOMEN
CHAPTER SIX. "Neither Pairs Nor Odd": Women, Urban Community, and Writing in the 188os Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
CHAPTER SEVEN. The Female Social Investigator: Matemalism, Feminism, and Women's Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Conclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 284
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Images: 18
- Other: 18 halftones
Keywords: Literary Studies; Urban Studies; Womens Studies

eBook

Published: September 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501729232