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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.
Print Book, English, 2000
Berghahn Books, New York, 2000
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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