Reading London's Suburbs [electronic resource] : From Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith /
Pope, G.author.
Hafejee, Salim,photographer.
A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Suburban Realities; 1 'Houseless - Homeless - Hopeless!': Suburbs, Slums and Ghosts 1830-1870; 2 'A World of Mud and Fog': The High Victorian and Edwardian Suburb, 1880-1914; 3 'The Third England': Suburban Fiction and Modernity, 1918-1939; 4 'Your Environment Makes as Little Sense as your Life': Post-War Suburbia 1945-1980; 5 'I Tried to Work Out Where I Was': Contemporary Suburbia; Conclusion: 'All Stories are Spatial Stories'; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-231) and index.
A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Architecture.
Fiction.
Buildings.
Literature—Philosophy.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Architecture, general.
Fiction.
Building Types and Functions.
Literary Theory.