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Author Webster, Roger

Title Expanding Suburbia Reviewing Suburban Narratives
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (208 p.)
Series Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections Ser. ; v.6
Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections Ser
Contents 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Suburban life.
Suburbs in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Suburban life
Suburbs in literature
Literatur
Stadtleben
Vorstadt Motiv
Vorstadt
Aufsatzsammlung
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1800735146
9781800735149