Reading London''s Suburbs - From Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: 'Where is Clapham? Does Clapham even exist?': Suburban Invisibility 1. "Houseless-Homeless-Hopeless!": 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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: G Pope, G. Pope, Ged Pope
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2015
• EAN: 9781137342454
• ISBN: 978-1-137-34245-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Architecture, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Architectural structure & design, Architecture, general, Literature: history & criticism, buildings, Literary theory, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Building construction & materials, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Building Types and Functions