| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index. |
| Contents |
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." |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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20th century |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Degeneration in literature.
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Degeneration in literature. |
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Regression (Civilization) in literature.
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Regression (Civilization) in literature. |
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Suburbs in literature.
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Suburbs in literature. |
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Suburban life in literature.
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Suburban life in literature. |
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Great Britain -- In literature.
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Great Britain. |
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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Civilization. |
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History.
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Literature and society. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kuchta, Todd, 1970- Semi-detached empire. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010 9780813929255 (DLC) 2009039652 (OCoLC)449283857 |
| ISBN |
9780813929583 (electronic book) |
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081392958X (electronic book) |
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9780813929255 |
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0813929253 |
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9780813929262 |
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0813929261 |
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