The modern-day suburb began, and began booming, in 19th-century Britain. As suburbia spread, the New Woman arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt more besieged. Anxieties about hygiene, pollution, purity, the home, class, gender ro...Daugiau...
Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodi...Daugiau...
Representation of the Banlieusard in Literature, Cinema, and Performances: Francephobia explores the complex identity of the banlieusard within French society through literature, film and pop culture, such as rap music and stand-up comedy....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2022, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609388577)
Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage defaults and housing foreclosures that precipi...Daugiau...
From Evelyn Waugh to P. G. Wodehouse and Lawrence Durrell, a sweeping celebration of literature set in and inspired by the suburbs of London. The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative litera...Daugiau...
Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodica...Daugiau...
The modern-day suburb began, and began booming, in 19th-century Britain. As suburbia spread, the New Woman arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt more besieged. Anxieties about hygiene, pollution, purity, the home, class, gender ro...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Apr-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228010647)
This book considers the cultures of suburbia in English Canadian fiction published from the 1960s to 2019. Exploring works of various Canadian authors, Cowdy argues there is no one authentic definition of a Canadian suburban imaginary but multip...Daugiau...
The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those places that thrive on disregard. By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this limin...Daugiau...
The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo cheering on Charlton Athletic Football Club down a...Daugiau...
Serija: Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Apr-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474426480)
The Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960 responding to the defining habitat of twentieth-century USA: the suburbs. . The Literature of Suburban Change examines...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Mar-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300179330)
A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and profes...Daugiau...
This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Iri...Daugiau...
Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of Australian fiction in dialogue wi...Daugiau...
This book reevaluates fiction devoted to the postwar American suburb, examining the way these works imagine suburbia as a communal structure designed to advance a particular American identity. Postmodern Suburban Spaces surveys works b...Daugiau...
Jane hasnt lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs....Daugiau...
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 tha...Daugiau...
Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia,New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home...Daugiau...
This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Dec-2013, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300109139)
The idea of a Greater London emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the citys suburbs. In Landscapes of London, Elizabeth McKellar traces this growth back to the 17th century, when domestic retreats were established in ou...Daugiau...
