Margins of desire
Subtitle: the suburbs in fiction and culture, 1880-1925
By: Lynne Hapgood.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; distributed in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Suburban life in literature; Suburbs in literature; Literature and society -- England -- London Suburban Area -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- England -- London Suburban Area -- History -- 20th century; London Suburban Area (England) -- In literature
Description: "Margins of desire turns the critical spotlight on the London suburbs by showing how the expanding city created new literary locations, genres and themes between 1880 and 1925. Drawing on a wide range of writings, the book considers not only the fiction that identified the suburbs as significant but also the fiction that suburban dwellers, particularly women, wrote and read for themselves. Pervasive suburban themes included the loss of the rural, the rejection of the urban, the feminisation of culture and changing class identities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index.