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The modern-day suburb began, and began booming, in 19th-century Britain. As suburbia spread, the New Woman arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt more besieged. Anxieties about hygiene, pollution, purity, the home, class, gender roles, patrilineal power and the state of the Empire rippled through British fiction. The new man of the house was trying, often desperately, to hold onto the old order, changing even more rapidly as the 20th century and modernist fiction arrived. This study traces suburban masculinities in popular genres--speculative fiction, comic fiction and detective fiction--and in literary works from the late-Victorian era to the start of the First World War.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
Introduction: The Victorian Suburbs' (Un)making of Masculinity
Chapter 1. As Pure as the Driven Fog: William Delisle Hay's The Doom of the Great City (1880) and Grant Allen's The British Barbarians (1895)
Chapter 2. Pootering Him Back in His Rightful Place: George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody (1892)
Chapter 3. Unsurelocked Homes: Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" (1893) and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"
(1908)
Coda: The Remaking of Suburban Masculinities in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction
List of Works
Locations of Works in Suburban London
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
