TY  - BOOK
AU  - Childs,Peter
AU  - Cunningham,Gail
AU  - Dentith,Simon
AU  - Hapgood,Lynne
AU  - Head,Dominic
AU  - Lea,Daniel
AU  - Matthews,Nicole
AU  - Peach,Linden
AU  - Price,Joanna
AU  - Taylor,D.J.
AU  - Webster,Roger
TI  - Expanding Suburbia: Reviewing Suburban Narratives 
T2  - Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections
SN  - 9781800735149
AV  - HT351 .E96 2000 
U1  - 307.74 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Suburban life
KW  - Suburbs in literature
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: SUBURBIA INSIDE OUT --; CHAPTER 1 FROM WILLIAM MORRIS TO THE MORRIS MINOR: AN ALTERNATIVE SUBURBAN HISTORY --; CHAPTER 2 ‘THE NEW SUBURBANITES’ AND CONTESTED CLASS IDENTITIES IN THE LONDON SUBURBS, 1880–1900 --; CHAPTER 3 THE RIDDLE OF SUBURBIA: SUBURBAN FICTIONS AT THE VICTORIAN FIN DE SIÈCLE --; CHAPTER 4 POISONED MINDS: SUBURBANITES IN POSTWAR BRITISH FICTION --; CHAPTER 5 SUBURBAN VALUES AND ETHNI-CITIES IN INDO-ANGLIAN WRITING --; CHAPTER 6 AN INCIDENT IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD: CRIME, CONTEMPORARY FICTION AND SUBURBIA --; CHAPTER 7 BETWEEN SUBDIVISIONS AND SHOPPING MALLS: SIGNIFYING EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOUTH --; CHAPTER 8 URBAN THRALL: RENEGOTIATING THE SUBURBAN SELF IN NICK HORNBY’S FEVER PITCH AND HIGH FIDELITY --; CHAPTER 9 THE SOUND OF THE SUBURBS: THE IDEA OF THE SUBURB IN ENGLISH POP --; CHAPTER 10 KITSCH ON THE FRINGE: SUBURBIA IN RECENT AUSTRALIAN COMEDY FILM --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume consider a range of representations of suburban life from the late nineteenth century to the present day, including fiction, film, and popular music, drawn from America and Australia as well as Britain. They explore and challenge traditional views of suburbia so that, rather than a location of conformity and stereotypicality, it can be viewed as a site of social conflict, division, and ambiguity as well as a source of significant creativity across a range of cultural texts. The volume takes a thematic approach, considering the rise of suburbia, imagined and real suburbias, alternative suburbias: all of the essays have a strong historical dimension and the overall approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800735149?locatt=mode:legacy
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ER  -