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Author:

Pope, Ged, 1962- author.

Title:

Reading London's Suburbs : from Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith / Ged Pope, Visiting Lecturer, London Metropolitan University, UK ; with photographs by Salim Hafejee.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 239 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

English literature--London--London--History and criticism.
Authors, English--Homes and haunts--London.--London.
London (England)--In literature.
Authors, English--Homes and haunts.
English literature.
Literature.
England--London.
Englisch.
Roman.
London.
Vorstadt.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Hafejee, Salim, photographer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-231) and index.

Contents:

5. `I Tried to Work Out Where I Was': Contemporary Suburbia. 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.

ISBN:

1137342455 (hardback)
9781137342454 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)895727052

LCCN:

2015002148

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)