Expanding suburbia : reviewing suburban narratives
During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life.
Polygons, v. 6
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 200 pages ; 23 cm.
9781571817907, 9781571817914, 1571817905, 1571817913
45087226
Introduction: Suburbia Inside Out / Roger Webster
1. From William Morris to the Morris Minor: an Alternative Suburban History / Simon Dentith
2. The New Suburbanites' and Contested Class Identities in the London Suburbs, 1880-1900 / Lynne Hapgood
3. The Riddle of Suburbia: Suburban Fictions at the fin de siecle / Gail Cunningham
4. Poisoned Minds: Suburbanites in Postwar British Fiction / Dominic Head
5. Suburban Values and Ethni-Cities in Indo-Anglian Writing / Peter Childs
6. An Incident in the Neighbourhood: Crime, Contemporary Fiction and Suburbia / Linden Peach
7. Between Subdivisions and Shopping Malls: Signifying Everyday Life in the Contemporary American South / Joanna Price
8. Urban Thrall: Renegotiating the Suburban Self in Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch and High Fidelity / Daniel Lea
9. The Sound of the Suburbs: the Idea of the Suburb in English Pop / D. J. Taylor
10. Kitsch on the Fringe: Suburbia in Recent Australian Comedy Film / Nicole Matthews
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