Victorian visions of suburban utopia, Walker, Nathaniel Robert (associate Professor Of Architectural History, Associate Professor Of Architectural History, The Catholic University Of Ameri
Описание: Explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage defaults and housing foreclosures that precipitated the Great Recession.
Автор: Beuka Название: SuburbiaNation ISBN: 1403963401 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403963406 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film.
Автор: Walker Nathaniel Robert Название: Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia: Abandoning Babylon ISBN: 0198861443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198861447 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 41497.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural, political, and cultural life. The book studies utopian visions published in the UK and the USA in the 1800s by writers such Robert Owen, James Silk Buckingham, Edward Bellamy, and William Morris.
Автор: Whelan, Lara Baker Название: Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era ISBN: 0415802172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415802178 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Whelan Lara Baker Название: Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era ISBN: 1138843563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138843561 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class values could be enforced. Whelan explores the dissonance created by the differences between the suburban ideal and suburban realities, recognizing the persistence of that ideal in the face of abundant evidence that it was hardly ever realized. She discusses evidence from primary and secondary sources about perceptions and realities of suburban living, showing what it meant to live in a "real" Victorian suburb. The book also demonstrates how the suburban ideal (with its elements of privacy, cleanliness, rus in urbe, and respectability), in its relation to culturally embedded ideas about the Beautiful and Picturesque, gained such a strong foothold in the Victorian middle class that contemplating its failure caused intense anxiety. Whelan goes on to trace the ways in which this anxiety is represented in literature.
Описание: The modern-day suburb began in 19th century Britain. As suburbia spread, the `New Woman` arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt increasingly besieged. This study traces themes of suburban masculinity in popular genres - speculative fiction, comic fiction and detective fiction - and in literary works from 1880 to 1914.
Explores how American writers articulate the complexity of twentieth-century suburbia
Examines the ways American writers from the 1960s to the present – including John Updike, Richard Ford, Gloria Naylor, Jeffrey Eugenides, D. J. Waldie, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz and John Barth – have sought to articulate the complexity of the US suburbs
Analyses the relationships between literary form and the spatial and temporal dimensions of the environment
Scrutinises increasingly prominent literary and cultural forms including novel sequences, memoir, drama, graphic novels and short story cycles
Combines insights drawn from recent historiography of the US suburbs and cultural geography with analyses of over twenty-five texts to provide a fresh outlook on the literary history of American suburbia
The Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960 responding to the defining habitat of twentieth-century USA: the suburbs. Martin Dines analyses how writers have innovated across a range of forms and genres – including novel sequences, memoirs, plays, comics and short story cycles – in order to make sense of the complexity of suburbia. Drawing on insights from recent historiography and cultural geography, Dines offers a new perspective on the literary history of the US suburbs. He argues that by giving time back to these apparently timeless places, writers help reactivate the suburbs, presenting them not as fixed, finished and familiar but rather as living, multifaceted environments that are still in production and under exploration.
Автор: Ryan, Professor Deborah Sugg (professor Of Design History And Theory) Название: Ideal homes, 1918-39 ISBN: 0719068843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719068843 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 16896.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of their homes. -- .
Автор: Rooney, Brigid Название: Suburban space, the novel and australian modernity ISBN: 1783088141 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783088140 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15863.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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'Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity' focuses on the dynamic interaction between suburbs and suburbia as this emerges in a century-long series of Australian novels - in works by Christina Stead, George Johnston, Elizabeth Harrower, Patrick White, Christos Tsiolkas and many other twentieth-century and contemporary writers. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric found in these novels in dialogue with their evocative rendering of suburban place and time.
In the process, 'Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity' rethinks perennial literary and cultural debates about suburbia - in Australia and elsewhere. It does so by putting fictional 'suburbs' (their multitude of imagined interiors, homes, streets, forms and lives over time) into dialogue with cosmopolitan resistance towards the very idea of 'suburbia' as an amnesic and conformist cultural wasteland. 'Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity' explores the generative collision produced in novels between the sensory remembered terrain of the primal suburb and wider cultural critiques of suburbia. It is through such contradictions that novels create resonant mental maps of suburban place and time. Australian novels, in other words, serve as a prism through which suburbs - real and imagined, remembered and utterly transformed - can be glimpsed sidelong.
'Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity' is a coinage that highlights both the persistence and the renovation of literary forms by means of the suburb. The suburbs prompt writers to experiment with the forms of the novel. The very scale of the suburb is productive, enabling narratives to slide readily from microcosm to macrocosm, from the domestic interior to the globe. Like suburbia, the novel is a form that is both generic and specific, circulating transnationally yet taking root locally. The term 'retro' also refers to acts of narrative retrospection. Novels about suburbs often play with time, looking into the past in order to summon what is lost. 'Retro-Suburbia' enacts a retrospective of Australian literary suburbia that reorients understanding of the political, cultural and literary significance of the suburbs.
Автор: George Название: Postmodern Suburban Spaces ISBN: 3319410059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319410050 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book reevaluates fiction devoted to the postwar American suburb, examining the way these works imagine suburbia as a communal structure designed to advance a particular American identity. Postmodern Suburban Spaces surveys works by both canonical chroniclers of the middle class experience, such as Richard Yates and John Cheever, and those who reflect suburbia’s demographic reality, including Gloria Naylor and Chang-rae Lee, to uncover a surprising reconfiguration of the suburban experience. Tracing major forms of suburban associations – racial divisions, property lines, the family, and ethnic fealty – these works depict a different mode of interaction than the stereotypical white picket fences. Joseph George draws from philosophers such as Emmanuel Levinas and Roberto Esposito to argue that these fictions assert a critical hospitality that frustrates the limited forms of association on which suburbia is based. This fiction, in turn, posits an ethical form of community that comes about when people share space together.
Автор: Jackson, Alan A. Название: Semi-detached london ISBN: 0815386699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815386698 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Semi-Detached London looks at the great suburban expansion of London between the two world wars. It covers all aspects of urban history, presenting an authoritative and balanced account.
Автор: Robb Brian J Название: Steampunk ISBN: 1781310262 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781310267 Издательство: Aurum Press Рейтинг: Цена: 3713.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This wide-ranging, beautifully-illustrated and much needed history explores the Steampunk`s many intricate expressions, tracing its development in fiction, cinema, television, comics, videogames and beyond.
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