Bungalow modernity : a study of twentieth century fictions of home Bungalow Empire. Prologue: At the Bay : Katherine Mansfields Bungalow Colony From Seaside to Suburb: Bungalow Phobia in H.G. Wells E.M. Forster and Rebecca West Colonial Frontiers: Mutable Bungalows in E.M. Forster George Orwell and Amitav Ghosh Bungalow America. Prologue: The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill : John Lennons Bungalow Hunt On the Veranda: Plantation Labor and Design in Frank Lloyd Wright and William Faulkner Bungalow Uncanny: Stranger Selves in Sinclair Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald Mildred Wirt Benson (Carolyn Keene) and Willa Cather California Dreams. Prologue: In a California Bungalow : Charles Warren Stoddards Bungalow Holiday Playing House: Buster Keaton in Bungalow Land From Bungalow Noir to Open House: The Multicultural Southland in James M. Cain Raymond Chandler Ross Macdonald Sue Grafton and Walter Mosley Conclusions: restorations. Despite its cozy image the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence yet fosters possibilities for personal transformation utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide the homes were sold in mail order kits during the bungalow mania of the early 20th century and enjoyed a revival at centurys end. The bungalow as fictional setting stages ongoing contradictions of modernity home and homelessness property and dispossession self and other prompting a rethinking of our images of house and home. Drawing on the work of writers architects and film directors including Katherine Mansfield E. M. Forster Amitav Ghosh Frank Lloyd Wright Willa Cather Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow. Provided by publisher