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OverviewMargins of desire turns the critical spotlight on the London suburbs by showing how the expanding city created new literary locations, genres and themes between 1880 and 1925. Drawing on a wide range of writings, the book considers not only the fiction that identified the suburbs as significant but also the fiction that suburban dwellers, particularly women, wrote and read for themselves. Pervasive suburban themes included the loss of the rural, the rejection of the urban, the feminisation of culture and changing class identities. By engaging with modernity as represented by the suburbs, such writing was subversive of literary tradition and value, and signalled a shift towards the idea of the ordinary, the accessible and the harmonious. Lynne Hapgood's lively approach opens up a counter-culture to modernist metropolitanism and argues for a more inclusive understanding of the fiction of the period. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lynne Hapgood , Kim Latham , Kim LathamPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780719059704ISBN 10: 0719059704 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 20 January 2005 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction - The defining suburb Part I Suburban visions 1. The utopian suburb: Jerome K. Jerome, William Morris and 'the logical dream' 2. The suburban idyll: Arthur Conan Doyle, Keble Howard, John Galsworthy 3. Beyond the suburbs: Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas, E.M. Forster Part II Suburban dreams 4. The suburban garden: Elizabeth von Arnim and the garden romances 5. The feminine suburb I: Women readers and romance fiction 6. The feminine suburb II: Louise Gerard, Sophie Cole, Alice Askew, Mary Hamilton Part III Suburban realities 7. The working-class suburb: William Pett Ridge, Shan Bullock, Edwin Pugh 8. The suburban cul-de-sac: George Gissing and H.G. Wells 9. The suburban extraordinary: Arnold Bennett and G.K. Chesterton Suburban fiction: A publication timeline Select bibliography -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationLynne Hapgood is Reader in English at Nottingham Trent University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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