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"""Living with Strangers constitutes an imaginative, historically and culturally informed array of essays that depict life in bedsits and boarding houses during a crucial period of British literary and cultural history. - Maria DiBattista, Princeton University, USA Bedsits and boarding houses provided alternatives for those for whom, for a variety of reasons, the family home was not an option. Living with Strangers is an evocative account of alternative domestic spaces as represented in fiction, art, theatre and film. It gets to the heart of how, from the mid twentieth century onwards, social marginality in modern England was largely expressed by where and with what people lived. - Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK This book is a valuable and original addition to the growing interdisciplinary literature on the home, and will be the first scholarly collection to look at bedsits and boarding-houses as a distinct social formation. - Victoria Rosner, Columbia University, USA"""

Living with Strangers constitutes an imaginative, historically and culturally informed array of essays that depict life in bedsits and boarding houses during a crucial period of British literary and cultural history. * Maria DiBattista, Princeton University, USA * Bedsits and boarding houses provided alternatives for those for whom, for a variety of reasons, the family home was not an option. Living with Strangers is an evocative account of alternative domestic spaces as represented in fiction, art, theatre and film. It gets to the heart of how, from the mid twentieth century onwards, social marginality in modern England was largely expressed by where and with what people lived. * Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK * This book is a valuable and original addition to the growing interdisciplinary literature on the home, and will be the first scholarly collection to look at bedsits and boarding-houses as a distinct social formation. * Victoria Rosner, Columbia University, USA *

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Chiara Briganti is former Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton College, USA and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. Kathy Mezei is Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University, Canada and Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge.

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