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by Deborah Epstein Nord


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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 others as connector and contaminant, carrier of the literal and symbolic diseases of modern urban life. In Walking the Victorian Streets, Deborah Epstein Nord explores the way in which the female figure is used as a marker for social suffering, poverty, and contagion in texts by De Quincey, Lamb, Pierce Egan, and Dickens.

What, then, of the female walker and urban chronicler? While the male spectator enjoyed the ability to see without being seen, the female stroller struggled to transcend her role as urban spectacle and her association with sexual transgression. In novels, nonfiction, and poetry by Elizabeth Gaskell1 Flora Tristan, Margaret Harkness, Amy Levy, Maud Pember Reeves, Beatrice Webb, Helen Bosanquet, and others, Nord locates the tensions felt by the female spectator conscious of herself as both observer and observed. Finally, Walking the Victorian Streets considers the legacy of urban rambling and the uses of incognito in twentieth-century texts by George Orwell and Virginia Woolf.

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  • Title Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City
  • Author Deborah Epstein Nord
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 284
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995-10-12
  • ISBN 9780801482915 / 0801482917
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.99 x 0.69 in (22.81 x 15.21 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-10932
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.809

About the author

Deborah Epstein Nord is Professor of English at Princeton University where she also teaches in the Program in Women's Studies. She is also the author of The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (Cornell Paperbacks).

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