Reading London's Suburbs

A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.

Autorentext
Ged Pope teaches on the English Literature degree course at London Metropolitan University.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: 'Where is Clapham? Does Clapham even exist?': Suburban Invisibility 1. "HouselessHomelessHopeless!": Suburbs, Slums and Ghosts 1830 1870 2. 'A World of Mud and Fog': The High Victorian and Edwardian Suburb, 1880 1914 3. 'The Third England': Suburban Fiction and Modernity, 1918 1939 4. 'Your Environment Makes as Little Sense as your Life': Post-War Suburbia 1945-1980 5. 'I Tried to Work Out Where I Was': Contemporary Suburbia Conclusion: 'All Stories are Spatial Stories' Notes Bibliography

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