‘Out of its torpid misery’: Plotting Passivity in Margaret Harkness’s A City Girl
‘Out of its torpid misery’: Plotting Passivity in Margaret Harkness’s A City Girl
This chapter examines Margaret Harkness’s novel A City Girl (1887). It describes the emergence of the Model Dwellings Movement, and considers Harkness’s time living in a model dwelling in London’s East End: Katharine Buildings. This chapter studies the fictional representation of Katharine Buildings in A City Girl to engage with questions about the social effectiveness of model dwellings movement and its program of ‘capitalist philanthropy.’
Keywords: Margaret Harkness, A City Girl, Katharine Buildings, East End, Capitalist Philanthropy, Model Dwellings Movement
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