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Hardcover The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture Book

ISBN: 0300179332

ISBN13: 9780300179330

The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture

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...

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