{"product_id":"walking-the-victorian-streets-9780801431968","title":"Walking the Victorian Streets","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Walking the Victorian Streets\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- Linda Dowling, author of \u003ci\u003eHellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth CenturyPART ONE. STROLLER INTO NOVELIST1. The City as Theater: London in the 1820s2. \u003ci\u003eSketches by Boz\u003c\/i\u003e: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering3. \"Vitiated Air\": The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in \u003ci\u003eDombey and Son\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003ePART TWO. FALLEN WOMEN4. The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London \u003ci\u003ePromenades\u003c\/i\u003e5. Elbowed in the Streets: Exposure and Authority in Elizabeth Gaskell's Urban FictionsPART THREE: NEW WOMEN6. \"Neither Pairs Nor Odd\": Women, Urban Community, and Writing in the 1880s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Female Social Investigator: Maternalism, Feminism, and Women's WorkConclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405122904407,"sku":"9780801431968","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/walking-the-victorian-streets-9780801431968","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}