Explores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century
metropolis and the texts that shaped them Uncovers a series of
innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London's
rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings
together the writing of prominent authors such as Charles Dickens
and George Gissing with understudied novels and essays to examine
the lively literary engagement with new models of urban housing
Focuses on the ways that these new homes provided material and
creative space for thinking through the relationship between home
and identity Identifies ways in which we might learn from the
creative responses to the nineteenth-century housing crisis This
book brings together a range of new models for modern living that
emerged in response to social and economic changes in
nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression
to their novelty. It examines visual and literary representations
to explain how these innovations in housing forged opportunities
for refashioning definitions of home and identity. Robertson offers
readers a new blueprint for understanding the ways in which novels
imaginatively and materially produce the city's built environment.
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