{"product_id":"open-houses-poverty-the-novel-and-the-architectural-idea-in-nineteenthcentury-britain-9780812250299","title":"Open Houses  Poverty the Novel and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Leckie's] comparative and innovative readings of classic novels are fresh, informative, and full of interesting details . . . [E]fforts to tell an alternative story of nineteenth-century modernity by connecting housing reform documentary literature and British novels are appreciated and should be taken seriously.\" * \u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] important and impressive work . . . \u003ci\u003eOpen Houses\u003c\/i\u003e provides not only superb readings of recovered documentary and canonical literary sources, it also provides a model for scholarship rooted in politics . . .[Leckie] provides us with an important re-examination of housing in nineteenth-century Britain and British fiction, with an eye toward the problem Martin Heidegger raises: how should we understand the role of the home in an age of precarity and poverty.\" * \u003ci\u003eRomance, Revolution \u0026amp; Reform\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOpen Houses\u003c\/i\u003e is a stimulating, provocative book convincingly underpinned by extensive research, sharp critical readings, and a confident familiarity with current theory. Barbara Leckie is an excellent critic of nineteenth-century fiction, but her conspicuous achievement is to bring fictional and nonfictional writings in dialogue with one another in a way that sheds light on both.\" * Kate Flint, University of Southern California *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. \"Let Us Look Into the House\" 1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. A Simple Idea of Architecture\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Dark Side of the Interior\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"The Ruined House\": Charles Dickens's \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Mediating Imagination: George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Interpenetrating Imagination: Henry James's \u003ci\u003eThe Princess Casamassima\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Epistemology of the House\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737446068567,"sku":"9780812250299","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812250299.jpg?v=1723811205","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/open-houses-poverty-the-novel-and-the-architectural-idea-in-nineteenthcentury-britain-9780812250299","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}