Making sense of suburbia through popular culture / / Rupa Huq |
Autore | Huq Rupa <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (407 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 307.74 |
Soggetto topico |
Suburban life
Suburbs in literature Suburbs in mass media Suburbs in motion pictures Suburban life in popular culture Suburbs |
ISBN |
1-4725-4475-7
1-78093-258-8 1-78093-259-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Copyright; 1 Seeking Culture in a Cultural Void? The Relationship between Suburbia and Popular Culture; Culture and representation; The suburban context; Suburbia and shifting national norms; Structure and omissions: Popular culture missing in action; Conclusion: New popular cultural paradigms; 2 Writing Suburbia: The Periphery in Novels; Pre-war antecedents: The narrative of English decline in Coming Up for Air; Post-war Americana; Sex and the suburbs; Macabre suburbia
Conclusion: Suburbia in the post-millennial age and continuities with the past3 The Sound of the Suburbs: Noise from Out of Nowhere?; Suburban sensibilities in early popular music; Suburban punk and post-punk; The 1990s and on: Hip hop, Britpop and beyond; Common themes and future directions in suburban pop; 4 Pastoral Paradises and Social Realism: Cinematic Representations of Suburban Complexity; History and memory: Depictions of suburbia of and from the 1950s and 1960s; Social realism: Slice of life depictions of British suburbia; Minorities and the suburban feelgood film Dysfunctioning suburbia and suburban alienation Conclusion; 5 Suburbia on the Box; No laughing matter? Suburban sitcom; In a lather: Suburban soaps; Genre-bending; Changing depictions of ethnic suburbia; Conclusion; 6 Women on the Edge? Representations of the Post-War Suburban Woman in Popular Culture to the Present Day; The problem with no name: The post-war suburban housewife and classic portrayals; Revolting moms; New formats and retreads; Discussion and conclusion; 7 Darkness on the Edge of Town: Mapping Asian London in Popular Culture Situating Londons suburbia and the place of Asians within itOn-screen Asians on television; Stranger than fiction; New directions in Asian fiction; Suburban soundtrack case-study: Bhangra in Ilford; On-screen II Asians on film; Discussion and conclusion; 8 Conclusion: Same As it Ever Was?; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910138858103321 |
Huq Rupa <1972-> | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Routledge companion to literary urban studies / / edited by Lieven Ameel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (515 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.93321732 |
Collana | Routledge companions to literature series |
Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns in literature
Suburbs in literature City planning - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-00-312493-3
1-003-12493-3 1-000-60557-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910772096603321 |
London ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Semi-detached empire [[electronic resource] ] : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / / Todd Kuchta |
Autore | Kuchta Todd <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.9109355 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Degeneration in literature Regression (Civilization) in literature Suburbs in literature Suburban life in literature Literature and society - Great Britain - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-49014-4
9786613585370 0-8139-2958-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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." |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456940003321 |
Kuchta Todd <1970-> | ||
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Semi-detached empire [[electronic resource] ] : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / / Todd Kuchta |
Autore | Kuchta Todd <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.9109355 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Degeneration in literature Regression (Civilization) in literature Suburbs in literature Suburban life in literature Literature and society - Great Britain - History |
ISBN |
1-280-49014-4
9786613585370 0-8139-2958-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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." |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781644503321 |
Kuchta Todd <1970-> | ||
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Semi-detached empire : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / / Todd Kuchta |
Autore | Kuchta Todd <1970-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.9109355 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Degeneration in literature Regression (Civilization) in literature Suburbs in literature Suburban life in literature Literature and society - Great Britain - History |
ISBN |
1-280-49014-4
9786613585370 0-8139-2958-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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." |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813111803321 |
Kuchta Todd <1970-> | ||
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Suburban plots : men at home in nineteenth-century American print culture / / Maura D'Amore |
Autore | D'Amore Maura <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.74097309/034 |
Collana | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book |
Soggetto topico |
Suburbs - United States - History - 19th century
Suburban life - United States - History - 19th century Men - Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Men in literature Suburbs in literature Suburban life in literature Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61376-311-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: colonizing the countryside, plotting the suburbs -- Thoreau's unreal estate: playing house at Walden Pond -- "To build, as trees grow, season by season": Henry Ward Beecher's domestic organicism -- "A man's sense of domesticity": Donald Grant Mitchell's home relish -- Advancement and association, nostalgia and exclusion: Hawthorne and the suburban romance -- A networked wilderness of print: textual suburbanization in Hillis's Home journal -- Speculative manhood: living fiction in the country-book genre -- Afterword: suburban nostalgia, then and now. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465082803321 |
D'Amore Maura <1978-> | ||
Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Suburban plots : men at home in nineteenth-century American print culture / / Maura D'Amore |
Autore | D'Amore Maura <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.74097309/034 |
Collana | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book |
Soggetto topico |
Suburbs - United States - History - 19th century
Suburban life - United States - History - 19th century Men - Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Men in literature Suburbs in literature Suburban life in literature Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 1-61376-311-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: colonizing the countryside, plotting the suburbs -- Thoreau's unreal estate: playing house at Walden Pond -- "To build, as trees grow, season by season": Henry Ward Beecher's domestic organicism -- "A man's sense of domesticity": Donald Grant Mitchell's home relish -- Advancement and association, nostalgia and exclusion: Hawthorne and the suburban romance -- A networked wilderness of print: textual suburbanization in Hillis's Home journal -- Speculative manhood: living fiction in the country-book genre -- Afterword: suburban nostalgia, then and now. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792207903321 |
D'Amore Maura <1978-> | ||
Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Suburban plots : men at home in nineteenth-century American print culture / / Maura D'Amore |
Autore | D'Amore Maura <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.74097309/034 |
Collana | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book |
Soggetto topico |
Suburbs - United States - History - 19th century
Suburban life - United States - History - 19th century Men - Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Men in literature Suburbs in literature Suburban life in literature Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 1-61376-311-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: colonizing the countryside, plotting the suburbs -- Thoreau's unreal estate: playing house at Walden Pond -- "To build, as trees grow, season by season": Henry Ward Beecher's domestic organicism -- "A man's sense of domesticity": Donald Grant Mitchell's home relish -- Advancement and association, nostalgia and exclusion: Hawthorne and the suburban romance -- A networked wilderness of print: textual suburbanization in Hillis's Home journal -- Speculative manhood: living fiction in the country-book genre -- Afterword: suburban nostalgia, then and now. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820322403321 |
D'Amore Maura <1978-> | ||
Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White Diaspora : The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel / / Catherine Jurca |
Autore | Jurca Catherine |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina |
813
813.509321733 813/.509321733 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century -
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Race in literature Segregation in literature Suburban life in literature Suburbs in literature White people in literature American fiction - History and criticism - 20th century American Literature English Languages & Literatures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-33973-0
9786613339737 1-4008-2413-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs -- CHAPTER TWO. Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb -- CHAPTER THREE. Mildred Pierce's Interiors -- CHAPTER FOUR. Native Son's Trespasses -- CHAPTER FIVE. Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel -- EPILOGUE: Same As It Ever Was (More or Less) -- NOTES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457649303321 |
Jurca Catherine | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White Diaspora : The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel / / Catherine Jurca |
Autore | Jurca Catherine |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina |
813
813.509321733 813/.509321733 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century -
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Race in literature Segregation in literature Suburban life in literature Suburbs in literature White people in literature American fiction - History and criticism - 20th century American Literature English Languages & Literatures |
ISBN |
1-283-33973-0
9786613339737 1-4008-2413-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs -- CHAPTER TWO. Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb -- CHAPTER THREE. Mildred Pierce's Interiors -- CHAPTER FOUR. Native Son's Trespasses -- CHAPTER FIVE. Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel -- EPILOGUE: Same As It Ever Was (More or Less) -- NOTES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781576003321 |
Jurca Catherine | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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