Expanding Suburbia
Reviewing Suburban Narratives
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2001
208 pages
978-1-80073-514-9 (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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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index
ISBN-13
978-1-80073-514-9 (9781800735149)
DOI
10.3167/9781571817907
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Person
Roger Webster is Professor of Literary Studies and Director of the School of Media, Critical & Creative Arts, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool.
Content
- EXPANDING SUBURBIA
- 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 POST-WAR 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
