Open houses : poverty, the novel, and the architectural idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain /

In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbreaks, political unrest, and government initiatives, commentators evinced a keen desire to document housing conditions and agitate for housing reform....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leckie, Barbara (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Series:	Haney Foundation series.
Subjects:	1800-1899 English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Working class > Dwellings > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Architecture, Domestic > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Housing > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Architecture, Domestic, in literature. Dwellings in literature. Poor in literature. Architecture and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Literature and society > England > History > 19th century. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Architecture and society Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Domestic, in literature Dwellings in literature English literature Housing Literature and society Poor in literature Working class > Dwellings England Great Britain Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : "Let us look into the house"
A simple idea of architecture
The dark side of the interior
"The ruined house" : Charles Dickens's Bleak House
The mediating imagination : George Eliot's Middlemarch
The interpenetrating imagination : Henry James's The Princess Casamassima
Conclusion : The epistemology of the house.

Open houses : poverty, the novel, and the architectural idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain /

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