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Author:   Lara Baker Whelan (Berry College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781138843561

ISBN 10:   1138843563
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   11 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: ""Scenes of Peace and Quietude,"" or Victorian Fantasies of Suburban Utopia Chapter 2: Dying of One’s Neighbors: Victorian Suburban Literature and its Deconstruction of the Suburban Ideal Chapter 3: Where There is No Profligacy, Drunkenness or Crime: Representations of the Working Class and Origins of Suburban Anxieties Chapter 4: Cracks in the Façade: Looking Behind the Cult of the Picturesque in Victorian Suburban Fiction Chapter 5: Controlling ""That Region of Irregular Bodies"": The Uninhabitable House and the Suburban Ghost Story Chapter 6: Gothic Terrors: The Suburban Ruin and Sensation Fiction Chapter 7: Sublime Suburbs Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Death of the Suburban Ideal and the Rise of the ""New"" Suburban, 1880-1914 Appendix A Notes Bibliography Index"

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Lara Baker Whelan is Department Chair of English, Rhetoric and Writing at Berry College.

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