Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century 1
6. PART ONE. STROLLER INTO NOVELIST
7. CHAPTER ONE. The City as Theater: London in the 1820s 19
8. CHAPTER TWO. Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering 49
9. CHAPTER THREE. "Vitiated Air": The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House 81
10. PART TWO. FALLEN WOMEN
11. CHAPTER FOUR. The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London Promenades 115
12. CHAPTER FIVE. Elbowed in the Streets: Exposure and Authority in Elizabeth Gaskell's Urban Fictions 137
13. PART THREE. NEW WOMEN
14. CHAPTER SIX. "Neither Pairs Nor Odd": Women, Urban Community, and Writing in the 188os 181
15. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Female Social Investigator: Matemalism, Feminism, and Women's Work 207
16. Conclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil 237
17. Bibliography 249
18. Index 259