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Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Labourer's Friend Magazine for the Disseminating Information on the Advantages of Allotments of Land to the Labouring Classes, on Loan Funds, and on Other Means of Improving Their Condition
Author: Quarterly Review
Author: The Quarterly Review
Author: The Labourers' friend magazine
Author: Society for improving the condition of the labouring classesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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The Quarterly Review (London)
Author: The London Quarterly Review
Author: Open Houses
Author: Barbara LeckiePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081229517X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbreaks, political unrest, and government initiatives, commentators evinced a keen desire to document housing conditions and agitate for housing reform. Consistently and strikingly, these efforts focused on opening the domestic interiors of the poor to public view. In Open Houses, Barbara Leckie addresses the massive body of print materials dedicated to convincing the reader of the wretchedness, unworthiness, and antipoetic quality of the living conditions of the poor and, accordingly, the urgent need for architectural reform. Putting these exposés into dialogue with the Victorian novel and the architectural idea (the manipulation of architecture and the built environment to produce certain effects), she illustrates the ways in which "looking into" the house animated new models for social critique and fictional form. As housing conditions failed to improve despite the ubiquity of these documentary and fictional exposés, commentators became increasingly skeptical about the capacity of print to generate change. Focusing on Bleak House, Middlemarch, and The Princess Casamassima, Leckie argues that writers offered a persuasive counterargument for the novel's intervention in social debates. Open Houses returns the architectural idea to the central position it occupied in nineteenth-century England and reconfigures how we understand innovations in the genre of the novel, the agitation for social reform, and the contours of nineteenth-century modernity.
The Labourer's Friend
Author: The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970
Author: G. B. WoolvenPublisher: Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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