Research Catalog
Open houses : poverty, the novel, and the architectural idea in nineteenth-century Britain
- Title
- Open houses : poverty, the novel, and the architectural idea in nineteenth-century Britain / Barbara Leckie.
- Author
- Leckie, Barbara
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
- ©2018
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-6594 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Haney Foundation series
- Uniform Title
- Haney Foundation series.
- Subjects
- Working class > Dwellings > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Dwellings in literature
- Literature and society > England > History > 19th century
- Housing > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Architecture, Domestic > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Architecture, Domestic, in literature
- Architecture and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Poor in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-6594
- ISBN
- 9780812250299
- 081225029X
- LCCN
- 2017058049
- OCLC
- 1006471097
- Author
- Leckie, Barbara, author.
- Title
- Open houses : poverty, the novel, and the architectural idea in nineteenth-century Britain / Barbara Leckie.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Haney Foundation seriesHaney Foundation series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-6594