Walking the Victorian streets : women, representation, and the city / by Nord, Deborah Epstein, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century -- Ch.1 -- The City as Theater: London in the 1820s -- Ch.2 -- Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering -- Ch.3 -- "Vitiated Air": The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House -- Ch.4 -- The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London Promenades -- Ch.5 -- Elbowed in the Streets: Exposure and Authority in Elizabeth Gaskell's Urban Fictions -- Ch.6 -- "Neither Pairs Nor Odd": Women, Urban Community, and Writing in the 1880s -- Ch.7 -- The Female Social Investigator: Maternalism, Feminism, and Women's Work -- Conclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil.…”
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