 | Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Marginality Social in literature; City and town life in literature; Mora; 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. 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). |
