1997•The American Historical ReviewRequires access
Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City.
Lori Anne Loeb, Deborah Epstein Nord
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Abstract
Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth CenturyPART ONE. STROLLER INTO NOVELIST1. The City as Theater: London in the 1820s2. Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering3. Vitiated Air: The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak HousePART TWO. FALLEN WOMEN4. The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London Promenades5. 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 7. The Female Social Investigator: Maternalism, Feminism, and Women's WorkConclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil Bibliography Index