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Open Houses - Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Open Houses - Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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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 exposes 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 exposes, 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.
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