Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City

by Deborah Epstein Nord

Book Overview

Literary traditions of urban description in the nineteenth century revolve around the figure of the stroller, a man who navigates and observes the city streets with impunity. Whether the stroller appears as fictional character, literary persona, or the nameless, omnipresent narrator of panoramic fiction, he casts the woman of the streets in a distinctive role. She functions at times as a double for the walker's marginal and alienated self and at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801431964
• ISBN13: 9780801431968
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher