Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury Novel Grounds /

• Main Author: Ingleby, Matthew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Fiction.; Civilization-History.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Cultural History.

This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged with Bloomsbury in the period it emerged as the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction-Writing Bloomsbury's Trajectory
• 2. Bloomsbury Entertains: Dinner Parties and the Literary Geographies of Class
• 3. Bloomsbury versus the Marriage Plot: Boarding-House and Barrister Bachelors
• 4. Bloomsbury's Vocations: Philanthropic Medicine and Iatrophobic Fiction
• 5. Women in the Walkplace: Tracking Bloomsbury's Female Pedestrians
• 6. In the Valley of the Shadow of Books: Placing Fictions of Literary Production at the Fin de Siècle
• 7.Conclusion-"Bloomsbury" in Play.