Description:
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.
Brief description: Lisa C. Robertson is Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She is co-editor of Margaret Harkness: Writing Social Engagement, 1880-1921 (MUP, 2019).
Review Quotes: Lisa Robertson tells a compelling story about the late nineteenth century that still speaks to us today: about the relationship between literary representation, dwelling spaces, the city, women, community and class relations. She breathes new life into forgotten texts and conjures the experiments in living and new architectural models that inspired and were inspired by them.-- "Deborah Epstein Nord, Princeton University"