115 records matched your query       

Author:

Leckie, Barbara, author.

Title:

Open houses : poverty, the novel, and the architectural idea in nineteenth-century Britain / Barbara Leckie.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Working class--History--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.
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.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index.

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.

Series:

Haney Foundation series

ISBN:

081225029X
9780812250299

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1006471097

LCCN:

2017058049

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)