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3. Plotting the Suburbs: Popular Fiction and Common Knowledge, 1850s–1870s
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Sarah Bilston
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: The “Horror” of Suburbia 1
- 1. John Claudius Loudon and the New Suburban Landscape 20
- 2. Setting Suburban Stereotypes: 1820s–1850s 37
- 3. Plotting the Suburbs: Popular Fiction and Common Knowledge, 1850s–1870s 53
- 4. “Art at Home”: Women and the Suburban Interior 74
- 5. Women and the Suburban Garden 114
- 6. Suburban Opportunity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Fiction 139
- 7. “The Quintessence of the Suburban”: Jane Ellen Panton and Julia Frankau Speak of Suburbia 178
- Conclusions: Stepping off the Threshold 209
- Notes 219
- Bibliography 251
- Index 267
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: The “Horror” of Suburbia 1
- 1. John Claudius Loudon and the New Suburban Landscape 20
- 2. Setting Suburban Stereotypes: 1820s–1850s 37
- 3. Plotting the Suburbs: Popular Fiction and Common Knowledge, 1850s–1870s 53
- 4. “Art at Home”: Women and the Suburban Interior 74
- 5. Women and the Suburban Garden 114
- 6. Suburban Opportunity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Fiction 139
- 7. “The Quintessence of the Suburban”: Jane Ellen Panton and Julia Frankau Speak of Suburbia 178
- Conclusions: Stepping off the Threshold 209
- Notes 219
- Bibliography 251
- Index 267
