Expanding suburbia : reviewing suburban narratives /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2000.
Description:vi, 200 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Polygons, Cultural diversities and intersection ; v. 6
Polygons ; v. 6.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4447444
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Other authors / contributors:Webster, Roger.
ISBN:1571817905
1571817913 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-192) and index.
Table of 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.