
Expanding Suburbia
Reviewing Suburban Narratives
Roger Webster(Editor)
Berghahn Books, Incorporated (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-57181-791-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Herndon
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
271 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57181-791-4 (9781571817914)
DOI
10.3167/9781571817907
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Roger Webster is Professor of Literary Studies and Director of the School of Media, Critical & Creative Arts, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool.