Semi-detached empire : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present /
Kuchta, Todd, 1970-
Semi-detached empire : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / Todd Kuchta. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations, map -
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index.
Semi-detached empire -- Reverse colonization in The War of the worlds -- Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Anglo-Indian -- Outposts of progress: Joseph Conrad's suburban speculation -- Beyond the abyss: degeneracy and death in the Edwardian suburb -- Ressentiment and late-imperial fiction -- George Orwell and the road to West Bletchley -- Epilogue: "In the blood and not on the skin."
In the first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, Todd Kuchta argues that suburban identity is tied to the empire's rise and fall. Like the semi-detached house, which joins separate dwellings under one roof, suburbia and empire were geographically distinct but imaginatively linked. Yet just as the "semi" conceals two homes behind a single façade, suburbia's apparent uniformity masks its defining oppositions--between country and city, "civilization" and "savagery," master and slave.
9780813929583 (electronic bk.) 081392958X (electronic bk.)
22573/ctt6tb2cf JSTOR
1800-1999
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Degeneration in literature.
Regression (Civilization) in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Suburban life in literature.
Literature and society--History.--Great Britain
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Dégénérescence dans la littérature.
Décadence dans la littérature.
Banlieues dans la littérature.
Vie de la banlieue dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Histoire.--Grande-Bretagne
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization.
Degeneration in literature.
English fiction.
Literature.
Literature and society.
Regression (Civilization) in literature.
Suburban life in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Great Britain--In literature.
Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.
Grande-Bretagne--Civilisation--20e siècle.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR888.D373 / K83 2010eb
823/.9109355
Semi-detached empire : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / Todd Kuchta. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations, map -
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index.
Semi-detached empire -- Reverse colonization in The War of the worlds -- Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Anglo-Indian -- Outposts of progress: Joseph Conrad's suburban speculation -- Beyond the abyss: degeneracy and death in the Edwardian suburb -- Ressentiment and late-imperial fiction -- George Orwell and the road to West Bletchley -- Epilogue: "In the blood and not on the skin."
In the first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, Todd Kuchta argues that suburban identity is tied to the empire's rise and fall. Like the semi-detached house, which joins separate dwellings under one roof, suburbia and empire were geographically distinct but imaginatively linked. Yet just as the "semi" conceals two homes behind a single façade, suburbia's apparent uniformity masks its defining oppositions--between country and city, "civilization" and "savagery," master and slave.
9780813929583 (electronic bk.) 081392958X (electronic bk.)
22573/ctt6tb2cf JSTOR
1800-1999
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Degeneration in literature.
Regression (Civilization) in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Suburban life in literature.
Literature and society--History.--Great Britain
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Dégénérescence dans la littérature.
Décadence dans la littérature.
Banlieues dans la littérature.
Vie de la banlieue dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Histoire.--Grande-Bretagne
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization.
Degeneration in literature.
English fiction.
Literature.
Literature and society.
Regression (Civilization) in literature.
Suburban life in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Great Britain--In literature.
Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.
Grande-Bretagne--Civilisation--20e siècle.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR888.D373 / K83 2010eb
823/.9109355