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02830aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 04BE62AC3F1811E98434DF6697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190305011820 008 180731s2019 ctua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0300179332 020 $a 9780300179330 035 $a (OCoLC)1046461606 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDXIT $d GZM $d CUI $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a HT352 G7 B55x 2019 100 1 $a Bilston, Sarah, $e author. 245 14 $a The promise of the suburbs : $b a Victorian history in literature and culture / $c Sarah Bilston. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a viii, 282 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g Conclusions. $t Stepping off the Threshold; $t John Claudius Loudon and the New Suburban Landscape -- $t Setting Suburban Stereotypes: 1820s-1850s -- $t Plotting the Suburbs: Popular Fiction and Common Knowledge, 1850s-1870s -- $t "Art at Home": Women and the Suburban Interior -- $t Women and the Suburban Garden -- $t Suburban Opportunity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Fiction -- $t "The Quintessence of the Suburban": Jane Ellen Panton and Julia Frankau Speak of Suburbia -- $g Conclusions. $t Stepping off the Threshold; 520 $a A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women. From the earliest decades of the nineteenth century, the suburbs were maligned by the aristocratic elite as dull zones of low cultural ambition and vulgarity, as well as generally female spaces isolated from the consequential male world of commerce. Sarah Bilston argues that these attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural authority of the emerging middle class and to reinforce patriarchy by trivializing women's work. Resisting these stereotypes, Bilston reveals how suburban life offered ambitious women, especially women writers, access to supportive communities and opportunities for literary and artistic experimentation as well as professional advancement. From more familiar figures such as the sensation author Mary Elizabeth Braddon to interior design journalist Jane Ellen Panton and garden writer Jane Loudon, this work presents a more complicated portrait of how women and English society at large navigated a fast-growing, rapidly changing landscape. 650 0 $a Suburban life $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women authors, English $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women $z Great Britain $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Suburbs in literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317030323.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190402021910.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=04BE62AC3F1811E98434DF6697128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search