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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]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR468.H63 L43 2018g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 303 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Haney Foundation series
- Uniform Title
- Haney Foundation series.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Working class > History > Great Britain > 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
- English literature
- Housing
- Literature and society
- Working class > Dwellings
- England
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references 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.
- ISBN
- 9780812250299
- 081225029X
- LCCN
- 2017058049
- 40028317139
- OCLC
- on1006471097
- 1006471097
- SCSB-9069562
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries