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Acknowledgments | |
Introduction: Rambling in the Nineteenth Century | p. 1 |
The City as Theater: London in the 1820s | p. 19 |
Sketches by Boz: The Middle-Class City and the Quarantine of Urban Suffering | p. 49 |
"Vitiated Air": The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House | p. 81 |
The Female Pariah: Flora Tristan's London Promenades | p. 115 |
Elbowed in the Streets: Exposure and Authority in Elizabeth Gaskell's Urban Fictions | p. 137 |
"Neither Pairs Nor Odd": Women, Urban Community, and Writing in the 1880s | p. 181 |
The Female Social Investigator: Maternalism, Feminism, and Women's Work | p. 207 |
Conclusion: Esther Summerson's Veil | p. 237 |
Bibliography | p. 249 |
Index | p. 259 |
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