Semi-detached empire
Subtitle: suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present
By: Todd Kuchta.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780813929255; 9780813929262; 9780813929583
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Degeneration in literature; Regression (Civilization) in literature; Suburbs in literature; Suburban life in literature; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- In literature; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Semi-detached empire; title: Reverse colonization in The War of the worlds; title: Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Anglo-Indian; title: Outposts of progress: Joseph Conrad's suburban speculation; title: Beyond the abyss: degeneracy and death in the Edwardian suburb; title: Ressentiment and late-imperial fiction; title: George Orwell and the road to West Bletchley; title: In the blood and not on the skin.