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